Hell on Earth Reloaded Written by: Shane Lacy Hensley, Teller, and Clint Black

Original Hell on Earth Written by: Shane Lacy Hensley, John Hopler, Teller,
John M. Goff, and many others
Layout & Graphic Design: Aaron Acevedo, Simon Lucas, and Joel Kinstle
Art by: Aaron Acevedo, Chris Bivins, Mike Burns, Jim Crabtree, James Denton, Bartłomiej Fedyczak, Bien
Flores, Alberto Foche, Tom Fowler, Liz Green, Darnell Johnson, Johan Lindroos, Chris Malidore , Mauro
Mussi, Paolo Parente, Angel Rams, Jose Maria Reyes, Alida Saxon, Carly Sorge, Tomasz Tworek, and
Cheyenne Wright
Character Sheet by: Cheyenne Wright
Cover By: Carmen Cianelli
Proofing by: Piotr Korys, Marguerite Kenner, Clint and Jodi Black, Matthew Cutter, and Scott Woodard
Playtesting and Advice: Clint & Jodi Black, Simon Lucas, Piotr Korys, Evil Mike, Chaos Steve,
Jay & Amy Kyle

Shane’s Dedication: To Teller, for his infinite patience and enthusiasm.

One day, my friend, you will be the Warlord of the Wastelands.

Teller’s Dedication: To Shane, Michelle, Charlie, John, ‘Shroom, and all

the great folks who made the original Wasteland game come alive.

© 2012 Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Deadlands, Hell on Earth, the Weird West, the Wasted West,
the Way Out West, Savage Worlds and all related original characters, marks and logos are
trademarks of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. All rights reserved.
Produced under license by Studio 2 Publishing, Inc. The Studio 2 logo is a trademark of
Studio 2 Publishing, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved. Printed in China.
 CONTENTS
PLAYER’S GUIDE  • 1
INTRODUCTION ���������������������������������1
The Great Spirit War ���������������� 1
Judgment Day ��������������������������� 6
The Wasted West ����������������������7
Who’s Who?������������������������������ 12
The Harvest ������������������������������ 19
Gazetteer ��������������������������������� 24
MAKIN’ HEROES���������������������������������31
Making Characters �����������������33
New Hindrances ��������������������� 34
New Edges ������������������������������� 36
EQUIPMENT�������������������������������������� 41
Gear Notes������������������������������� 42
Weapons����������������������������������� 52
Gear List����������������������������������� 55
Vehicles������������������������������������� 56
Pimp My Ride!������������������������� 60
MARSHAL’S HANDBOOK  • 93
Coup ����������������������������������������� 93
Radios��������������������������������������� 93
Weird Weather������������������������� 94
Mutations��������������������������������� 95
Veteran o’ the Wasted West � 96
The Harrowed ������������������������� 98
Fear Levels������������������������������ 100
Scrounging������������������������������ 102
THE WASTED WEST�����������������������105
East of the Mississippi �������� 105
Great Basin������������������������������ 106
The Great Maze�����������������������114
The Great Northwest ������������ 123
High Plains�������������������������������131
The Sioux Nations ���������������� 140
Lower Mississippi and Delta142
The Wild Southwest�������������� 146
The Coyote Wasteland���������� 153

SETTING RULES������������������������������ 65 MONSTERS & MISFITS�������������������157

Counting Coup ����������������������� 65 Humans������������������������������������ 192
Death����������������������������������������� 65 Personalities���������������������������� 195
Ghost Storms��������������������������� 65
Scavenging ������������������������������� 66 REFERENCES  • 202
Index ��������������������������������������� 202
NO MAN’S LAND  • 69 Character Sheet��������������������� 204
Doomsayers ����������������������������� 69
Harrowed ����������������������������������72
Junkers ��������������������������������������77
Sykers��������������������������������������� 80
Templars����������������������������������� 86
Toxic Shamans ����������������������� 90
 Hell on Earth was inspired by two things—the movie Road Warrior® and the computer
game Wasteland®. But it was also inspired by the backstory in Deadlands. I had a long
elaborate story concocted about the Reckoners—how they were out to soak the world in
fear and the heroes were out to stop them.
And then it occurred to me how much fun it would be to play in the Weird West some
200 years later if the Reckoners were successful. We’d call it the “Wasted West,” and
it would be a post-apocalyptic Western. The outcast mutants would take the place of
American Indians in our tragic narrative, bikes would replace horses, and junk-collecting
madmen would be our new mad scientists.
I would also be remiss not to admit that, at the time, before Deadlands had actually
come out to the public, I had been told by retailers and distributors that our little horror
Western wouldn’t sell. So I thought, “That’s okay. I’ll put it out anyway and then blow
it up!” It sounded cool and a little edgy, and as the idea grew, I started thinking about
how we’d hide the identity of the Reckoners and the coming of Hell on Earth in the first
Deadlands rulebook. (The names of the Reckoners appeared in certain headers.)
Of course, Deadlands was a great success and that left me with a little bit of a dilemma.
We had struck gold—and now we were going to blow it up? So we decided Hell on Earth
was the most likely future of the Weird West—not the only one. That’s important because
it makes the adventures in Deadlands a little pointless if the heroes are ultimately doomed
to failure.
In the “official” timeline, the heroes were successful—the first time. But then the
Reckoners cheated (at great cost) and sent their killer, Old Stone, we call him, back
through the Hunting Grounds to the Weird West to kill certain do-gooders before they
could do too much good.
Not to be hand-wavey, but I wouldn’t get too wrapped up in all that. Instead, dive
into Hell on Earth and see how hucksters have gradually become sykers, or the blessed
have become Templars. Check out how many servitors the Four Horsemen have running
around the Wasted West these days—it’s a lot more than four and they’re really hard to
take down. Read deep enough and you’ll find all kinds of lore that reaches back into the
dusty past of the Weird West and tells you what happened to folks like Mina Devlin and
Black River, or the nefarious Doctor Hellstromme.
You players can ignore all that if you want. There’s a customized road-hog out there
with your name on it, or maybe a cache of ammo for your favorite shotgun and a six-pack
of pre-war Bubbly Fizz Cola—”Good for what ails ya!” Scavenge around the wastes long
enough and you might even find a relic from days long past, or a working suit of power
armor, or even secret enclaves of other wasters trying to reclaim the world…or finish off
what’s left of it.
This isn’t just a wasteland. It isn’t just post-apocalypse. This is Hell on Earth.

—Shane Hensley
April 2012

Note: Changes have been made from the original Hell on Earth to better reflect events
that happened since we first released it in 1998. It’s a little more serious this time out, and
there are some rule changes between this game and Deadlands Reloaded to reflect the
state of the Wasted West, or because of our playtesters’ comments. If you’re familiar with
Deadlands, you’ll want to pay particular attention to the rules for Fear Levels, Guts, Grit,
Fate Chips, and certain Harrowed powers.
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INTRODUCTION
The year is 2097, but the future is not
our own.
For over 200 years, a Cold War was waged
between the United and Confederate States
of America. The American Civil War ended
in a stalemate in the late 1800s, leaving the
South a free and independent nation. A
long, tense peace was punctuated by brief
spasms of violence and briefer moments of
cooperation for a greater good.
The long Cold War came to an end on
September 23, 2081, at 6:17 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time. Judgment Day arrived on
the wings of irradiated ghost rock bombs,
leaving about six billion dead. Of the billion
or so who survived, most fell victim to
starvation, disease, random violence, and
worse in the chaotic days following the end
of the world.
What happened next? That’s a long story,
but before we get started, let’s go back to
the beginning.
THE GREAT SPIRIT WAR
Monsters are real. They always have
been. Walking dead, werewolves, vampires,
and even dragons have stalked the Earth
since it was created. But around what
Europeans call the Dark Ages—and a whole
undiscovered continent away—a group
of American Indian shamans from many
different tribes came together.
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PLAYER’S G
The most powerful of the shamans—the
Old Ones—learned that a great deal of
the supernatural evil in the world was
channelled through bad spirits the Indians
called “manitous,” what Westerners call
demons.
These beings served as conduits for
magical energy to and from the world
to the mystical “Hunting Grounds.” This
power could then be used to augment the
manitous’ chosen allies—monsters and
black-hearted humans—or create all-new
horrors from humanity’s worst fears and
nightmares.
The Old Ones reasoned that if the
manitous could be kept out of the physical
world, the earth’s monsters would gradually
die out. For this, the shamans turned to
their ancient allies, the strange and distant
nature spirits.
Besides many strange savage rituals,
there was one additional cost: the Old
Ones would have to remain in the Hunting
Grounds and bar the doorways that kept
the manitous trapped. Forever.
The ensuing battles came to be called
the Great Spirit War and tore the Hunting
Grounds asunder. In the end, the shamans
and their allies were victorious. Afterward,
the surviving nature spirits returned to their
strange ways while the Old Ones turned
to guarding the pathways to Earth. Thanks
to their sacrifice and eternal vigil, the
influence of the manitous in the physical
world was greatly diminished.
 ground, the same
place the Old Ones
had crossed into the
Hunting Grounds
centuries before.
Once on the other
side, Raven and his
band hunted down
and murdered the
Old Ones. With the
ancient shamans
dead, the gates
were opened and
manitous were once
again free to enter
the physical world.

Enter Raven
The next few hundred years were pretty
good for mankind. Demons did occasionally
slip through and monsters still roamed, but
their numbers and powers were shrinking
rather than growing.
Unfortunately, the white man’s arrival
in the Americas set in motion a tragedy
that would end with a literal Hell on Earth.
A young Susquehannah shaman named
Raven watched his whole village get
wiped out by the pale-skinned invaders in
1763, and he carried a grudge to Hell and
back—literally.
Though the nature spirits had grown
even more distant since their bargain
with the Old Ones, Raven still managed to
become a powerful shaman. He discovered
the secret of long life, found out the story
of the Great Spirit War, and hatched a plan
to undo the Old Ones’ work and visit evil
upon the white man.
Raven gathered up others who had
suffered like him—the Last Sons—and
entered the Hunting Grounds through a
hidden portal in an ancient Micmac burial
The Reckoners
During his travels,
Raven discovered
that the manitous
served greater forces
of destruction that
later came to be
called the Reckoners
by some, or the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse by others.
With the blood of the Old Ones on
his soul, Raven became the first of
the Reckoners’ “servitors,” willing and
intelligent humans paving the way for
the Four Horsemen on Earth. In exchange,
Raven (and future servitors) received great
power and near-immortality.
The Four Horsemen had been waiting
for their chance to rise for millennia. The
actions of the Great Old Ones panicked
them and they knew they’d come close
to being trapped in the Hunting Grounds
forever.
So they became proactive. Each created a
chosen servitor—War claimed Raven’s soul—
to champion their cause. They also tasked
the manitous with creating monsters and
mayhem wherever they found the tender
beginnings of fear and misery.
Negative energy eventually “terror-forms”
an area into a “Deadland.” When enough
Deadlands are created, they form a literal
Hell on Earth that can sustain the Reckoners
and allow them to walk upon it in the flesh.

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Ghost Rock THE NATURE OF FEAR
The Reckoners’ “investment” in servitors
The Reckoners know they can’t
and manitous returned rewards quickly, but
just throw a monster into a town
that wasn’t enough. They knew the best
and transform it into a Deadland.
way to drive bloodshed and fear was to give
If everyone believes in monsters,
mankind something to fight over.
they rally and begin to fight back.
Around 1868, Raven performed a ritual The most effective horrors are the
that shattered California into a labyrinth ones no one admits believing in, but
of mesas and channels stretching from secretly dream about in their worst
Mexicali to Oregon. Within the walls of nightmares.
the “Great Maze” were veins of a brand
That’s not to say a good massacre
new mineral. This new fundament burned
doesn’t create a Deadland near
a thousand times hotter than coal and
overnight. That definitely happens,
screamed like the damned when set alight.
especially during wars. But it has to
It was quickly dubbed “ghost rock.”
be done carefully or the Reckoners
Soon after, ghost rock was discovered all know they or their minions will be
over the world—though the majority of the exposed and that will set them back
largest strikes were in America. Within a greatly.
year, ghost rock became the most valuable
It’s also worth noting that
mineral in the world and people started
servants of the Reckoners (except
fighting and killing one another just to get
the servitors) don’t know they were
a hold of it.
given life or power by ancient evil
Ghost rock is an incredible power beings. A werewolf just knows it
source and soon gave rise to all manner wants meat and a murderous spirit
of inventions—from steamships to vapor just knows it wants to cause chaos
cannons. Most of these inventions were and pain. They all forward the Four
geared to destroy, but those who raised that Horsemen’s agenda to terror-form
issue were ignored in the face of “progress.” the world into a literal Hell on Earth,
however.
Hell on Earth—Almost
The destructive nature of ghost rock
and the rising tide of fear in the world’s
backwater regions continued through the
next century. Men like Hitler and Stalin
accelerated the pace, along with world-
wide economic depressions and tragedies, Despite some close calls of the Cold
such as the Rape of Nanking, that spawned War, bloody brushfire wars, and the rise
countless horrors and formed Deadlands of atomic and ghost rock-powered bombs,
all around the world. the world actually stayed intact. Countries
rebuilt, economies rose, and electronics
By the time of World War II, it seemed
replaced machines.
the world was finally on the verge of Hell
on Earth, but the hard-fought victory of
the Allies gave the world hope. Despite the A Whole New World
terrors living in the ruins and the monsters
In 2044, Hellstromme Industries
prowling the edges of civilization, humanity
announced a project that would change the
won out. It was helped greatly by secret
world. And another world on top of that. The
societies of soldiers, agents, and civilians
geniuses at HI built something called “the
who fought back against these horrors.
Tunnel,” which could propel a ship at faster-
Most even kept their stories to themselves
than-light speeds to other star systems.
so as not to generate more fear.
Within a few years, they even found a way

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to a new system they dubbed “Faraway,”
complete with an inhabited planet called
The Eye of the Storm
Banshee—for its howling winds. Just as they had in World War II, heroes
rose. Some fought on the battlefield, some
Banshee was home to a race of purple-
strove for peace, and others quietly fought
skinned creatures called “anouks,” who
the secret horrors rising in the violence of
seemed a lot like early American Indians to
war.
the first colonists who landed there. They
traded with some, warred with others, and Just before Christmas of 2080, President
then made the discovery that would change Mary Tremane of the United States,
everything. Banshee had ghost rock. President Jonas Sothby of the Confederacy,
and their allies agreed to a cease-fire. On
That became especially important in
New Year’s Eve, the two presidents issued a
2078 when a geologist named Gerhard
joint press release declaring their intent to
Hauptman published the Hauptman Survey.
negotiate a more permanent peace.
He concluded the earth’s supply of ghost
rock would be exhausted in about 20 years. Shortly after taking off from Denver
on New Year’s Day, Tremane’s aircraft
Wealthier nations stocked colony ships
disappeared over the Rockies. Theories
full of miners—and soldiers—and paid
abound as to what happened to the
Hellstromme Industries exorbitant fees to
presidential plane, ranging from a freak
hurl them through the Tunnel to Faraway.
electrical storm to assassination by air-to-
War broke out literally hours after the first
air missile. Sothby immediately issued his
colonists arrived and the United Nations
sincere regrets, but Tremane’s successor,
sent their first armed troops (and later
Andrew Bates, wasn’t hearing it.
starships) through to keep the peace.
He believed the Southern Alliance had
Of course the less-developed countries
shot Air Force One out of the sky and
couldn’t afford colonies on Banshee, so
said as much on national television. Peace
they fought over what was left back on
talks disintegrated and Bates threatened to
earth.
nuke a Confederate city every week until
the Confederacy ceded Southern California
The War to End The World as “payment” for Tremane’s assassination.
Eventually these wars spread to the larger It was the first time any nation had
countries and their entangled alliances. seriously threatened using the awesome
Both the USA and CSA had treaties all over power of a ghost rock bomb.
the world, and North America was hands
down the continent with the richest ghost
rock deposits.
The Beginning of the End
Most folks knew “A-Bomb Andy’s” threats
When the American nations called on
were the beginning of the end and they
their allies, they came running and North
were right. Fighting broke out all over the
America soon became the focal point for
world within hours.
World War III.
Germany invaded Mexico, the heart of
The Northern Alliance consisted of the
the Latin American Alliance, and also
People’s Republic of China, Deseret, France,
mixed it up with French troops guarding
the Latin American Alliance, South Africa,
their embassy in Mexico City. In retaliation,
and the United States itself.
French forces in Europe marched across
The Southern Alliance included the the Rhine to invade Germany, then turned
Confederate States, the Warsaw Pact (still around to repulse a British invasion across
a political bloc despite the dissolution of the English Channel.
the Soviet Union nearly a century before),
Fiercely cruel battles broke out in Asia,
Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Germany, and
Africa, and South America. Russia and
Russia. By the end of 2080, America—along
Japan invaded China. South Africa charged
with the rest of the world—was awash in
north, carving through the smaller nations
blood.

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before butting heads with Egypt. The
tremendous oil fields of the Middle East
were set aflame as Iran and Iraq renewed
their age-old enmity.
Still, no one had dropped a ghost rock
bomb. A-Bomb Andy had started folks
talking about it, but no one had actually
yet had the nerve to do it. Then Pakistan
launched a single tac-nuke against India
and the nuclear genie was out of the bottle.
The Big Bang
The Pakistani nuke was the shot heard
round the world. The unspoken rule had
been broken and ghost rock bombs were
now fair game. A few weeks later, Great
Britain tossed a nuke at France’s coastal
defenses to pave the way for a new
amphibious invasion, planned to coincide
with a German counterattack against
France. Russia came to France’s aid and all
of Europe erupted in flame.
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In North America, the Canadians anted
up with nukes of their own, directed against
Union border defenses in Washington and
New England. Within a couple days, the
Canadians took Boston and proceeded
south to rendezvous with a Confederate
division for an attack on Washington, DC.
Suddenly, A-Bomb Andy was up against
the wall. Worse, he turned out to have a
case of the deep-down crazies. Some think
he had a psychotic break thanks to the
stress he’d been under since the death of
Mary Tremane, but others now wonder if a
more nefarious force had pushed him along
to destroy the world.
Whatever the case, he lived up to his
name and turned to his last resort: scorched
earth. Scorched planet Earth.

JUDGMENT DAY
The first Union bombs fell at 6:17 p.m. EST,
September 23, 2081. The firestorm swept the
globe. Andy launched the entire US arsenal,
and CSA Strategic Command retaliated in
kind. About half of the nations’ nukes were
aimed at each other and the rest were fired
off at cities around the world. Most every
important target on Earth was hit.
Ghost Busters
Most of the bombs that fell on Judgment
Day were city busters, sometimes called
“ghost busters” because of the ghost rock
inside. These weapons were designed to
kill everyone in a city without completely
destroying its strategic value. Of course, that
ignored the thousands of screaming souls
unleashed on the earth and the damage
they did in the resulting “ghost storm.”
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From ground zero to about five miles out,
all but the biggest, toughest buildings were
reduced to rubble, and pretty much everyone
was flash-fried by ghost rock-fueled
radiation. Around this area formed a solid
wall of screaming souls—a ghost storm.
From the ten-foot thick walls of the
maelstrom out to another 30 miles, the
blast didn’t do much to the landscape, but
killed about half the population. Even a
bomb shelter wouldn’t save you, as what
killed most folks outside of ground zero
were the damned souls released by the
bomb’s ghost rock core. Those who weren’t
killed by this demonic whirlwind were
warped or mutated by the supernatural
and radioactive energy.
After everyone was done dying and
mutating, the maelstroms remained. The
spirits still swirl about the perimeter, but
they no longer instantly kill or mutate
anyone who passes through.
The Deadlands
The worst part of the land around a blast
site—usually confined by the maelstrom—
becomes a Deadland. Plants die, creatures
mutate into monsters, and horrors plucked
right out of humanity’s worst nightmares
come to life. Few believed in the existence
of magic and monsters before the war, but
there was certainly no denying it afterward.
All together, the detonations occurring
within the space of a week created
thousands of Deadlands. Those closest
together—the ones that fell in areas with
high population densities like Europe,
China, and the eastern areas of the USA
and CSA—linked together, turning the Earth
into one great big pit of fear.
This was the terrible outcome the
Reckoners had been working toward all
those long years.
Come the Horsemen
Shortly after the dust settled, the
Reckoners themselves appeared on Earth,
straight out of the Book of Revelations. The
four entities of destruction first appeared
in the American West, where the fighting
prior to Judgment Day was at its worst.
War showed up in Kansas, raised an
army of the dead, and then stomped his
way through the Dakotas. Famine popped
up in California, knocked what was left of
the City of Lost Angels flat, and, despite
losing her steed to the priests of the Free
and Holy City, headed East with a trail of
starvation behind her. Pestilence was a late
starter, only appearing in Texas a couple
weeks later. He quickly made up for lost
time and led his army of plague zombies
on a rampage through Texas, Louisiana,
and points East. Death rose in Death Valley,
leaving a trail of corpses all the way to the
Mississippi.
The Reckoners spent fifteen years on a
murderous world tour, leaving millions dead
in their wake. When they finally returned
to the Wasted West, however, they faced a
reckoning of their own.
THE WASTED WEST
After Judgment Day, it didn’t take long
for folks to start building a new world
from the ashes of the old. People are pretty
resilient, and they quickly gathered in
communities and groups of various sizes.
Unfortunately, it’s as likely as not these
communities are dedicated to stomping on
other communities and taking their stuff.
It’s a hard world out there.
City Livin’
Just about every major city in North
America was destroyed on Judgment Day,
with the exception of Salt Lake City and
Denver. Even so, most are recognizable
thanks to their famous landmarks. No one’s
really sure why things like the Sears Tower
in Chicago and the Space Needle in Seattle
are still standing, but there they are. Of
course, most such landmarks are within
maelstroms, so tourism isn’t real popular
these days.
Survivors who live in a city usually live
outside the maelstrom that marks the outer
edge of a ghost buster’s blast radius. That
doesn’t mean they aren’t vulnerable to
lower levels of radiation common near the
maelstroms. Therefore, most folks who live
in these ruins are mutants. It’s not that they
like exposing themselves to the radiation
and monsters common in the outskirts of
the ruined cities, it’s that building a new
community is pretty tough for folks that are
usually outcasts or exiles thanks to their
mutations. The cities offer plenty of shelter
and plenty of scavenging opportunities, and
frankly, no one else wants to live there.
The ’Burbs
Ruined towns are usually in slightly better
shape than the cities. Rather than having a
nuke dropped on their heads, they simply
fell apart in the ensuing riots, looting, and
fighting, and were then abandoned. Most
places have a few survivors hiding out here
and there, but they’re ghost towns for all
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Survivor Settlements
Places like this are where the bulk of
folks live these days, and they come in all
shapes and sizes. Some are built on rickety
platforms over water, others on mesas in
the Great Maze in California. Most common
are those built up on the ruins of old towns.
Those without natural defenses are almost
always walled in. Some actually construct
these walls out of brick and concrete, but
most simply pile up wrecked cars and other
debris. A few even set up camp with one
side backed up against the Mason-Dixon
Wall and the rest fenced in with whatever
was on hand.
In any case, most survivor settlements
are pretty picky about who they let in.
Anyone suspected of spying for raiders or
carrying some sort of disease is turned
away at the gates, and those that slip
through often wind up hanging from the
walls as a warning to others.
Every survivor settlement has a leader
of some sort, usually a mayor or sheriff.
Sometimes it’s a council or committee of
folks who think they know what they’re
doing. Occasionally these folks are elected,
but more often they’re just wasters with
some natural leadership ability or charisma
out the wazoo.
HIGHWAYS
Back before Judgment Day, anybody who
wanted to hop a plane to another city just
had to buy a ticket (it was a little more
complicated than that when flying over the
Mason-Dixon Wall, but you get the point).
These days, pretty much any flight you can
find is indefinitely delayed. If you’re going
to do anything other than sit around in a
survivor settlement farming irradiated dirt,
you need to figure out some means of
locomotion.
Hoofing It
Let’s get this one out of the way first: It’s
a bad idea to walk. Even taking aside the
fact that you have zero chance of escaping
any horrors, road gangs, or other dangers
you might run into on the road, walking
anywhere takes an awfully long time. Good
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luck trading for enough supplies to keep
you going, brainer. Most folks can cover
20–30 miles in eight hours of travel, given a
reasonably light load in their packs.
Trading for a horse and making like a
cowboy is almost as bad, but at least you
won’t wear yourself out walking. Assuming
you can keep your animal in feed and
yourself from getting saddle sore, you’ll
clear about 40 miles a day this way. Even
better, if you run out of milrats—that’s
“military rations”—along the way, you’ve got
horse flesh to munch on. You’ll get where
you’re going a little later, but at least you’ll
get there.
Get Your Motor Running
At the end of the Last War, there were
a lot less people left in the world. A lot
less cars, too, but the human population
declined a lot faster than the four-wheeled
variety. For a while, at least, those who
remained had their choice of rides. Anyone
who cared to could whiz through the ruins
in the latest model.
Of course, these days, the latest model is
about fifteen years old, and very few fuel
stations have any spook juice left. Between
the dangers of the road gangs (and worse)
and the simple lack of spare parts, more
vehicles lie rusting at the side of the road
than speeding down it. Likewise, the roads
themselves are in pretty rough shape. Fifteen
years without any kind of maintenance
means pavement is often cracked, broken,
overgrown with plant life, and sometimes
altogether destroyed.
Provided you can find enough gas to
keep that motor running, most vehicles can
cover about 150–200 miles a day as the crow
flies. That said, the vehicle probably tacks a
lot more than that on its odometer; all the
ruined roads and abandoned wrecks mean
anyone traveling this way frequently needs
to double back and find a different route.
Head Out On the Highway
The last option is to hook up with one
of the trade caravans that crisscross the
Wasted West. With the destruction of the
Convoy during the Harvest, you’ll have to
find one of the smaller operators. Some use
trucks, while others are trains of horses,
mules, or oxen hauling wagons. A few are a
weird mix of pickup beds pulled by animals,
wagons, and even grounded aircraft.
Whatever these caravans look like, they
provide trade and communication between
survivor settlements. Besides doing a lot
of good, these convoys help you get from
place to place. They’re always in need of a
few gun hands and road warriors to guard
their wares against the road gangs, and the
bigger ones even have the goods to pay a
small wage.
Trade convoys tend to cover about 100
miles a day, or about 50 if they include
beasts of burden. The drivers most often
take shifts, which allows them to cover
more ground, but the loaded-down vehicles
need extra time to find the safest routes. Oh
yeah—don’t count on a trade convoy getting
you exactly where you want to go. The
bigger ones only stop at major settlements,
and smaller outfits handle local trade.
WHAT IS THE LAW?
There’s no national formal law. The
Wasted West is a frontier just like the
Old West was. It’s up to each settlement
to decide what their rules and regulations
are. Some restrict the carrying of firearms
while others embrace it. Some ban mutants,
others ban cyborgs, and some even ban
anyone who isn’t a mutant or a cyborg or
whatever they think is important.
Justice is generally harsh and fast in
these towns. The town judge, council, or
whatever they’ve established doesn’t want
to feed ungrateful mouths, so those who
violate the local laws are usually exiled or
executed.
A waster is encouraged to scout out any
settlement he wants to enter for a bit before
he goes in. Most towns are walled one way
or another, and that makes it tough to
escape a corrupt cop or a delusional mob.
DINERO
Back before the war, “dinero” was slang
for money. These days, it’s just as likely to
actually be dinner. See, after Judgment Day,
folks just don’t have much use for paper
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money. Well, okay, they do use it for one
thing, but they don’t call it filthy lucre for
nothing!
Most trade in the Wasted West is handled
through barter. Folks don’t trade for things
they don’t need unless they can turn around
and trade it off to someone else at a profit.
Some items commonly traded are bullets,
milrats, food, ghost rock, and a few luxuries
that folks miss from before the war—like
soda and chocolate. Jewelry and other
luxury items are still worn, but most folks
put more value on a bushel of corn than a
diamond ring.
“Cash” folks carry these days is usually in
the form of portable luxuries. Little things
like this can usually be traded just about
anywhere for more practical items.
Currency
That said, a few places have established
standard currencies. This is mostly limited
to the big survivor settlements, and their
coins and paper money aren’t good outside
their borders. The actual physical shape
the currency takes is as varied as the
communities that issue it. One town might
trade in bottle caps emblazoned with a
particular logo, while the next might print
scrip on tanned cowhide, or use pages torn
from a particular book.
Thus far, only Junkyard (near old Salt
Lake City) has managed to set up a system
of currency that extends beyond its own
borders, and this is due largely to the
assistance of the many trade convoys that
operate out of the city. Junkyard bucks,
called “widgets,” are usually good in major
settlements that trade with the Iron Oasis in
the former states of Arizona and Nevada, as
well as what was once Deseret. Of course,
if you hit a smaller settlement that isn’t
serviced by a trade caravan from Junkyard,
you’re on your own. Ike Taylor, the town’s
leader, would like to expand widgets to
Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho to strengthen
the grip of the Iron Alliance with a common
currency.
Like money back in the early 20th Century,
widgets are backed by a supply of precious
metal. Any time you want, you can march
right up to the Widget Exchange in Junkyard
and turn in your widgets for junk. The city’s
Widget Exchange is a central repository for
any salvage that isn’t immediately useful
in the city’s defense. You can find anything
from an electric toaster to a guided missile
here. Most folks don’t bother, since widgets
are accepted currency all over the area,
but junkers and technicians often go junk
diving for spare parts.
Likewise, any scavenger can trade his
accumulated junk for a fistful of widgets.
Don’t expect to trade in a sack full of
porcelain doorknobs for a fortune, though.
The folks who run the Widget Exchange are
shrewd hagglers. The “bounty” on various
items can fluctuate wildly: an electric can
opener that goes for $15 one week might be
worth only $1 if a convoy comes through
with a truckload of them.
COMMUNICATION
During the Last War, the electromagnetic
pulses from both the atomic and ghost
rock bombs knocked out most transmitters,
computers, and the like. The blasts
them­selves destroyed telephone lines, cell
towers, server farms, and routing centers.
If you do find a working transmitter, you’ll
be lucky to get a radio signal out more
than a few thousand yards. Technical types
say it has something to do with the nasty
weather. Even so, short range radios still
work pretty well, and command high prices
on the barter block.
Junkyard has managed to establish some
primitive telephone service, though you
generally only find a single communal
telephone every building or so. On the
plus side, since there’s no one outside of
Junkyard to talk to, you don’t have to worry
about long distance charges.
Satellite Radio
Most communication satellites—most
any satellites, really, including GPS—were
knocked out during the war. That said, folks
with the right equipment—we’re talking
military grade transmitters, brainer—have
been able to contact the last remaining
comsat pretty reliably.
Make that ComSat, with capital letters.
Yeah, it’s a name, more or less. ComSat is
artificially aware. It’s also apparently lonely,
as it occasionally contacts folks out of the
blue. ComSat doesn’t usually let folks talk
live, either to it or through it, but instead
allows folks to post messages in its vast
storage banks. The satellite then allows
others to review these messages, but it’s
usually careful to grant access only to those
for whom the message was intended.
 Occasionally, ComSat can be convinced
to break its own rules, but only with a lot
of sweet-talkin’. Want to talk live to an old
friend back in the Maze? Better be prepared
to make a fool of yourself whispering sweet
nothings into your radio.
Trade Convoys
Trade convoys are usually more than
happy to carry messages if the price is
right. Here’s a hint, though, brainer: write
it down. Ever play telephone, where you
whisper something to your buddy, and he
whispers something to his, and so on for a
dozen people or so? If you tell a trucker to
pass on, “I love you, and the kids are fine,”
he’s liable to tell a trader, who’ll tell a kid,
who’ll tell the object of your affections, “I’ll
shove you, and break your spine.” Ah, love.
Anyway, if you do decide to write a
letter, expect to be charged an arm and a
leg. Further, you better hope it’s expected,
because few trade convoys make mail calls.
Usually, they just throw all that paper in
a sack and leave it in the town square at
each stop. In other words, you’ll have total
strangers pawing through your mail every
step of the way, and it may never get where
you meant for it to go.
Postmen
If it absolutely, positively, has to get there
in the next few months or so, the postmen
are your best bet. This isn’t an organization
so much as a job description, just a group
of individuals who carry deliveries all over
the Wasted West. Each postman usually has
a specific route he follows, often limited to
a particular region. In rare cases, two or
more postmen might work together to form
a network, allowing them to cover a wider
area.
Most charge whatever they think they
can get away with. You can generally bet
it’ll be $5–$10 per letter, and about $100 for
an easily carried package. They don’t deal
in anything larger. Finally, keep in mind
that postmen rarely guarantee delivery.
Rain, sleet, snow, and dark of night may not
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stop these folks, but monsters, muties, and
misfits certainly can. Since postmen trade
on their reputation, you can usually expect
undelivered mail to be returned. No refunds,
though, brainer.
MOTHER NATURE IS A…
The end of the world made Mother
Nature one mean bitch. Radioactive dust
devils race across the deserts, black rain
pelts the High Plains, and toxic fumes
gather wherever the winds are still. If
you’ve got ’em, you’d be well advised to
roll your windows up; if not, you’d better
find shelter fast.
Black Rain: Ghost rock deposits are
burning all over the West. Occasionally,
huge, black clouds from these fires
coalesce and mix with thunderclouds. They
drift for hundreds or even thousands of
miles before they gather enough moisture
to unleash a downpour. This deadly rain
is pure black and filled with the damned
souls let loose by burning ghost rock.
Dust Storms: The Last War did all kinds
of crazy things to the planet’s weather
patterns. Dust storms often kick up in
areas with lots of loose silt, dirt, sand, or
ash. Once the wind starts swirling, smart
folks get under cover. The dumb ones
suffocate in seconds. The worst of these
are radstorms, which have blown through
bombed-out areas and are laced with
radio­active fallout.
Hellstorms: These vicious storms are
aptly named. They’ve got it all: searing hot
winds, boiling rain, and violent lightning. If
you run across one of these, brainer, you’d
best head for a bomb shelter. Car hulks
work in a pinch, but concrete buildings are
better. Tents, trees, and so forth won’t last
but a few seconds in these tempests.
Toxic Clouds: With all the toxic nastiness
out there, it’s no surprise that certain areas
are saturated with toxic fumes. Fortunately,
they dissipate on windy days, and they’re
pretty easy to spot otherwise. Just stay out
of any green, yellow, orange, or red clouds
floating low to the ground.
 Law Dogs are a bit more varied in their
WHO’S WHO? sentencing, however. It’s rarely practical to
jail someone they see as an evil-doer in the
nearest settlement since the natives would
Several powerful factions rose in the wake
then have to feed—or sometimes feed on—the
of Judgment Day. From groups of mutants
poor sap. Thieves are usually relieved of their
to an army of robotic killing machines, the
goods (except for perhaps a few essentials)
Wasted West has no shortage of interesting
and the loot given to the nearest town (or
and amazing individuals bent on rebuilding,
the victims if they’re known). Violent types
revenge, or just plain survival.
are beaten and threatened viciously, and
murderers are usually executed.
LAW DOGS Most Law Dogs don’t revel in this kind of
While there’s no national law—or eye-for-an-eye thing—it’s just a necessity in
even a government to make it—there are the wastelands where there are no jails to
individuals who take it on themselves feed or house these wasters.
to bring justice to the people. Most
are former law enforcement officers
who were duly authorized before the
THE COMBINE
Apocalypse and saw no reason to Unlike most major cities in the
stop just because the paychecks Wasted West, the industrial sectors
did. of Denver were spared the ravages
of the Last War. Turns out this is
One of these was Jane
where Dr. Hellstromme built the
Swindall, a former Texas
core of his company’s automated
Ranger. She gathered every
manufacturing might, and he
law dog she could find,
was a pretty paranoid fellow.
whether Rangers, US Agent
He built state-of-the-art energy
(the Rangers’ former rivals),
shields over his holdings in both
or traffic cop, and tasked
Denver and Salt Lake City which
them all with continuing
prevented their destruction.
their sworn oaths. The “Law
The rest of Denver was hit by
Dogs” gained acceptance in
neutron bombs as well as some
most survivor settlements
sort of bioweapon, and is now
thanks to Swindall’s cool head
a giant graveyard of mostly
and fairness—and dedication
intact buildings filled with
to hunting down anyone
rat-gnawed skeletons.
who shamed their name.
Before you get any bright
Law Dogs are not a
ideas about heading up there
formal organization
to scrounge, a Confederate
so much as a loose
officer—a cyborg actually—
band of heroes
beat you to it. He never
sworn to protect
learned to share, either.
the innocent. Any
General Throckmorton is
innocent. They
his name, and he and his
aren’t stuck up
troops rolled into Denver
about it like the
shortly after the Apocalypse.
Templars (who we’ll
Somehow, he managed to rewire
tell you about below)
the factories to obey his commands,
and don’t distinguish
and they started pumping out his
between race, faction, or
new mechanized army. Though the
mutantdom. The law is blind, they
bulk of Throckmorton’s military is
say, and the Law Dogs—at least the
made up of Black Hats and their Red
majority of them—believe that’s a
Hat officers—so called because in the
sacred principle.
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identified by their distinctive headgear—his
most powerful forces are entirely robotic.
Most are automatons, humanoid robots
with the killing power of a tank squadron. COMBINE HIERARCHY
These days automatons usually stick pretty Red Hats: The Combine’s officers.
close to Denver and protect Throckmorton’s Green Hats: Technical specialists,
assets there. Any humans caught in doctors, and scientists.
and around the ruined city without the Gray Hats: Sneaky sorts who
appropriate identification are enslaved or specialize in infiltration. Needless
killed. to say, they don’t actually wear gray
hats—that would kinda give ‘em away.
The Combine’s human troops range a
Automatons: Undead cyborgs who
little farther afield. The hardcore elite, the
technically report to the Red Hats, but
Red Hats, are those who have been with
are notoriously hard to control.
Throckmorton since the beginning, as well
Black Hats: The Combine’s foot
as some of the more promising Black Hats
soldiers.
who have been promoted. On the next rung
are the technical experts. Known as Green
It’s well known that Combine
Hats, these are the mechanics, doctors,
weapons are outfitted with explosives
scientists, and even a few junkers who
that detonate if anyone besides a
swear allegiance to the Combine in return
Combine soldier attempts to use them,
for a fairly cushy existence in the ruins. At
so scavengers should beware!
the bottom of the Combine cesspool are the
Black Hats, Throckmorton’s foot soldiers.
Recruited from the ranks of the wasteland
scum to fill out the Combine’s legions,
these bullies, thugs, savages, and murderers
equipment taken more than a few feet from
patrol the region surrounding Denver and
its Black Hat owner. A Black Hat obviously
exact “tribute” from nearby settlements. The
can’t carry a vehicle in his pocket, so they’re
nature of this tribute ranges from food, to
rigged to blow if anyone without a Black
arms and ammunition, and sometimes even
Hat chip tries to use them.
warm bodies to work as slaves in Denver’s
factories.
Lately, the Combine’s appetite for slaves
MUTANTKIND
has grown even more voracious. Bands of When people say “mutant” these days,
“Chain Dogs,” so called for the chains they most norms think of crazed three-eyed
wear around their necks, have been ranging cannibals lurking in the city buster-blasted
farther and farther afield from Denver in ruins. In actuality, the genetically altered are
the search for folks to help rebuild Denver divided roughly into three major factions:
after the Battle of Worms. If you run into Free-Range Mutants, the Cult of Doom, and
these scum, be careful. They are some of the Joan and the Heretics.
most vicious two-legged predators you’re
likely to meet. The good news is most of
them are too ornery to let Throckmorton
“Free-Range Mutants”
chip them, so their gear and vehicles can Throughout the Wasted West you’ll find
be scavenged without fear of explosive them, living in scattered pockets just like
consequences. anyone else. The difference is mutants, or
“The Chosen” (as they refer to themselves),
Finders...Deaders live in areas that most norms shun due to
high levels of radiation. Some were born
Just for the record, don’t go trying to into mutant communities. Others were
scavenge Combine equipment. Their ammo kicked out of their settlements and into the
is an odd caliber and all their weapons and savage wastes by their normal neighbors
vehicles are booby trapped with a special when their mutations were discovered.
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 The one thing all muties have in common,
of course, is some sort of mutation. Maybe
their teeth and hair fell out, they sprouted
a vestigial tail, their bones deformed, or
they’ve got unsightly boils on their skin.
Whatever the defect, most are just ugly or
a little deranged. Despite the fact that most
norms hate and fear mutants because of
a fear of weird powers, very few actually
develop any. Unfortunately, many are insane
and violent thanks to their mutations.
Many mutants take up residence in the
ruined cities that dot the land. This is a bad
idea, because most gain more mutations
and become “troglodytes,” or “trogs” for
short. These losers are so messed up there’s
no reasoning with them.
These independent muties typically
just try to get by the best they can, but
the harsh conditions of the ruins, as well
as a diminished intelligence that some
suffer from, lead many bands to raid norm
settlements for food and supplies, which
begets a cycle of fear and hatred, just the
sort of thing that Silas and the Cult of
Doom cater to.
The Cult of Doom
The Cult of Doom is a collection of
lunatics and mutants holed up in the ruins
around Las Vegas. Surprisingly, Las Vegas
itself came through the Last War relatively
unscathed. For some reason, it seems the
Confederates “missed” the City of Sin, and
the ghost buster intended for Vegas actually
struck the city’s easterly suburbs.
Just about everyone east of the Strip
died instantly. Those who survived farther
west quickly fell under the dominion of the
Vegas mobs and later the “Cult of Grendel,”
which worshipped a monster that laired in
the ruins of the Tropicana. A couple years
later, Silas Rasmussen showed up.
Silas was a professor before the Big
Bang, and became a powerful mutant after
arriving in Vegas. He claimed radiation
should not be feared, but worshipped, and
had an actual consciousness and will of its
own. Maybe so, maybe no, but the upshot
was that Silas was a powerful priest of
this new god, which he called “the Glow.”
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He cemented his power by destroying the
Grendel and therefore the power of the Cult
of Grendel.
Silas capitalized on this new-found
celebrity and the resulting power vacuum,
building a new society in Vegas, with
himself at the top, and his Doomsayers—
radiation priests—serving as priests and
enforcers. Mutants flocked to his banner
from all over the Wasted West.
Most brought with them stories of
atrocities and intolerance against mutants,
perpetrated by norms. The story of two
mutants hanged for the crime of mutation
itself gave Silas the excuse he needed to
flex his radiation-enhanced muscles. He
gathered his Doomsayers and mutant
legions and launched a crusade against
Virginia City, where the unfortunate
mutants were killed.
Virginia City didn’t have a chance. Though
many mutants died in the initial assault,
Silas’ shock troops—the Doomsayers in
particular—carried the day. When victory
was finally achieved, Silas ordered his
followers to slaughter the surviving
inhabitants of the city down to the last
man, woman, and child. His new religion
was baptized in blood.
Even with his victory at Virginia City,
Silas’ newfound bloodlust wasn’t sated.
He turned his eye to nearby Carson City,
but this time things went differently. By
now, Silas was convinced that norms were
doomed anyway, and he was simply clearing
the decks for the mutant population to take
over. He turned his army loose on Carson
City, once again led by his Doomsayers.
By now, however, they had a new name:
Doombringers.
Carson City was very well fortified, and
Silas’ forces had already suffered heavy
casualties in the fighting at Virginia City.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of a traveler
named Teller, the Cult was soundly
defeated, and forced back to Las Vegas to
nurse its wounds. That was the last time
the Mutant King himself led an attack. In
the decade or so after Carson City, Silas
sent his Doombringers across the West
to lead local rebellions against norm
settlements, waging a guerilla war that
fanned the flames of hatred between norms
and muties. The recent destruction of a
norm-friendly mutant enclave in Armana,
Idaho, in the fall of 2094, as well as the
destruction of the Cult of Doom’s holiest
site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, gave Silas
enough propaganda to whip up his followers
for the attack on Junkyard during the
Harvest. When the long-foretold Harbinger
appeared during the fighting and ordered
the attacking mutants of Vegas to return
to their holy city and await his arrival, they
weren’t about to say no. Silas was furious,
but he couldn’t exactly stand against the
arrayed forces of the Iron Alliance without
his mutant hordes for backup, so he went
along.
Silas returned home to more than a few
problems. When it turns out that the folks
you called Heretics a few years back actually
had the right of things, your followers tend
to get a little restless. Silas began cracking
down on anyone who dared raise a voice
against him, and the Strip looks a lot like
the old Roman Appian Way, just with
casinos these days.
Joan and the Heretics
No, it’s not a rock band.
A few of Silas’ inner circle woke up
after the “battle” at Virginia City and
realized what it really was: a massacre.
They tried to talk some sense into the
mutant messiah, but he had gone round
the bend by this point. Silas rounded up
the most vocal dissenters—especially those
once in his inner circle—and stuck them in
hastily made prison wagons, labeling them
heretics.
After Carson City and the retreat back to
Vegas, he took a lot of his frustrations out
on the so-called heretics. Silas executed
several heretics a day, just to put the fear of
the Glow into anyone else who might have
second thoughts about his divinity—or his
sanity.
Finally, the heretics made their move.
A whole posse of them, led by a woman
named Joan, managed to break out of Silas’
fortress in the Luxor hotel. About 50 made
a break for freedom, but only a dozen made
it outside of Las Vegas city limits. Those
who survived scattered.
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DR. DARIUS HELLSTROMME
Dr. Hellstromme was the Deseret
Mormons’ leading citizen for over 200
years. You read right. Two hundred
years. This scientific genius made
most of his money during the Great
Rail Wars of the American West, back
in the late 19th century. He was the
world’s preeminent scientist, and he
focused most of his genius on the
advancement of ghost rock science.
Though his public image was all
spit and polish, his private side was
quite a bit darker. He was one of the
few folks who realized the ultimate
and inevitable end ghost rock science
would reach, but he continued his
work heedless of the danger, intent on
some nefarious purpose of his own.
Sometime around 1900 Dr.
Hellstromme disappeared for a bit. He
was getting on in years, so most folks
figured he’d up and died. He shocked
everyone when he reappeared in 1917,
and not just because he’d apparently
returned from the dead. Hellstromme
had returned in a robot body! Based
on his own automaton design, the
Doctor’s new body sustained his genius
by storing his brain in a preservative
solution in a robotic skull. Around this
time, Hellstromme seemed to turn over
a new leaf, and developed dozens of
new technologies that would ultimately
benefit mankind. When World War II
broke out, he threw in his lot with the
Allies, and his inventions were the only
thing that held the occult-powered
German war machine in check.
After the war, traditional science
began to trump mad science, and
Hellstromme withdrew from public
view, although he worked to develop
a ghost rock alternative to atomic
power. Though he continued to claim
his inventions were intended for the
betterment of mankind, it seemed that
every single one could be—and was—
turned to a darker purpose somehow.
 Over the next few months, Joan and her
followers resurfaced all over the Wasted West,
preaching tolerance and understanding
between mutants and norms. Though the
heretics believe norms are doomed, just
like Silas does, they contend that norms
should be treated no worse than mutants.
They are, after all, the mutants’ forebears.
Just because old-style humanity is on its
way out doesn’t mean the children of the
atom have to give them a boot out the door.
The Doomsayers who follow Joan’s
philosophy of peace adopted purple robes
to distinguish themselves from Silas’ green-
robed Doombringers. Labeled “heretics” by
Silas and his followers, they spent the next
decade or so protecting the world from
their misguided brothers (who want to kill
every unmutated human) and searching for
a prophesied mutant messiah they called
the Harbinger.
The Harbinger
Around the time Joan led her little
revolution, she had herself a prophetic
dream. In it, the Saints visited her and
foretold the coming of the Harbinger, who
would lead the world into a new golden
age, the age of the Chosen (Chosen by
the Glow, that is: mutants). The Harbinger
would know this path thanks to his blazing
red eye, and the people would know him
by his silver-white skin. The search for the
Harbinger became one of the cornerstones
of the Heretic movement.
THE GRAND LIBRARY
Led by Head Librarian Marcus Liebowitz,
the Librarians are an order dedicated to
preserving the past to help rebuild the
future. Holed up in a fortified complex on
the outskirts of Sacramento, these folks
have hundreds of data slugs that store
electronic copies of books on just about
every subject you can imagine. They also
record interviews with folks who have the
knowing of things, both from before the
Last War and after. Among the luminaries
the Librarians have recorded are Joan, leader
of the Heretics; Shawn Connors, leader of
the Denver Resistance; and Jo Wales, the
Grand Master of the Templars.
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Despite their crusade to preserve
knowledge, the Librarians are pretty
secretive folk. They don’t issue library cards,
for one—as far as Liebowitz is concerned,
the knowledge in their vaults is to stay put
until it’s needed. Muriel Redwing enforces
this policy as head of the Grand Library’s
security forces.
The Librarians consider themselves an
order of monks, dedicated to the two tenets
of their motto: “Fides Et Scientia” (Faith and
Knowledge). These precepts are the Alpha
and Omega of a Librarian’s existence.
Librarians see lives—even those of their
own order—as expendable, if that is the
price that must be paid to preserve even a
tidbit of knowledge.
Most of the Librarians responsible for
collecting and recording texts from across
the Wasted West are Junior and Assistant
Librarians. Before they are trusted with this
vital duty, they must serve as Novitiates
in the Grand Library itself, cataloging the
findings of their comrades in the field.
Those Junior and Assistant Librarians who
excel—or are crippled in the line of duty—
are eventually promoted to Librarian proper,
then Head Librarian. Both of these ranks
serve in the Grand Library, overseeing the
day to day functions of the place.
THE CHAMBER
This collection of junkers was one of the
first groups to join Ike Taylor’s Iron Alliance.
The Chamber was formed back in 2090 by
a group of junkers who wanted to work
together to study the full ramifications
of the presence of the tech spirits in the
Hunting Grounds, and to explore the depth
of technical knowledge stored away in the
Net. Led by a High Master who dresses in
flowing, arcane symbol-covered robes like
some character out of the Perry Hotter
books, the Chamber runs an Academy that
teaches prospective junkers not only the
ins and outs of junker tech, but also basic
classes in science and engineering. These
techno-mages live in a mountainous walled
research facility whose location is a closely
guarded secret. Those who wish to join
must first find the Chamber, then pass a
whole slew of tests and an interview with
the High Master, Earl Whitlow.
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Quests
What good would a bunch of wizards
in a mountain stronghold be if they didn’t
send people out on quests occasionally?
The Chamber often sends lower ranking
members out, sometimes with students and
guards, on mundane tasks like gathering
components or recruiting new students.
Less frequently they send members out on
some task of great import like retrieving
valuable books or relics. If the quest seems
particularly dangerous, the member charged
with the quest is sometimes authorized to
hire heroes of good reputation to help out.
The Chamber normally pays with junker
tech.
THE TEMPLARS
This group of wasteland warriors is
dedicated to fighting the good fight in the
Wasted West. That said, the Templars don’t
throw their lives away on lost causes, nor do
they die for those who don’t deserve their
efforts. The Templars are only interested in
helping those willing to help themselves.
Somebody up there obviously approves,
because the Templars have all kinds of
abilities they claim are a reward from the
Powers That Be—the good ones that is!
The Templars are headquartered in
Boise, Idaho, where the order was founded
by Simon Mercer. Just to give you an idea
of what kind of badasses these folks are,
their headquarters is located inside the
Boise maelstrom. This has a lot to do with
their philosophies, in that only deserving
folks will be able to get past the maelstrom
looking for their help.
Yep, deserving. The Templars are pretty
picky about whom they help, and no one
outside the order is really clear on the
criteria. Because of this, a lot of folks think
the Templars are just a bunch of selfish
jerks. Individual Templars have been known
to turn their backs on entire survivor
settlements, only to turn around and lay
down their lives for a single child.
The Templars are a small order—only
about 300 actual knights, along with a
few squires and aspirants—but they’re an
important part of Ike Taylor’s Iron Alliance.
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ROAD GANGS
When Judgment Day rolled around, a lot
more people died than cars. For starters,
once you get a fair distance away from
ground zero, folks get vaporized by a ghost
buster while nearby structures suffer only
minor damage. That means there are a lot
of salvageable vehicles just sitting on city
streets after their drivers disappeared one
day. Getting them through a maelstrom wall
can be tough, but there are vehicles aplenty
to be had outside the ghost storms.
Admittedly, when most folks decided
to get the Hell out of Dodge (or whatever
city they were in on Judgment Day), most
hopped in their cars and hit the highway.
This of course, led to mile-long traffic jams,
and those led to abandoned vehicles, ripe
for the picking. For a while, every brainer
and his brother had some wheels between
him and the asphalt.
Then the fuel started to go. Suddenly,
the only way to keep your vehicle moving
was to steal from someone else or trade for
homebrewed moonshine out of some crazy
hermit’s still. Eventually, junkers realized
they could distill spook juice themselves
and began offering that to those seeking
go-juice. Still, since no one really likes
dealing with crazy hermits or even crazier
junkers, a lot of upstanding folk just
abandoned their rides and climbed aboard
the heel-toe express. The less than shining
examples of humanity, however, formed
road gangs. Though these groups burn a lot
more fuel than a single vehicle, they also
have a lot more firepower with which to
steal other folks’ fuel. They raid survivor
settlements for food and spook juice, battle
other road gangs for ammo and more spook
juice, and pretty much take what they can,
when they can.
A very few road gangs are a bit more
noble, and trade their services as soldiers
and guards to survivor settlements in
exchange for fuel, food, and other supplies.
Some even go after those gangers who ride
the outlaw road, and steal only from those
who steal themselves.
Finally, there were the gangs of Deseret
and the surrounding area. Most of these
gangs came to an understanding with Ike
Taylor years ago. They’d trade salvage and “the Harvest”—as a nod to his Combine
food for fuel from the Junkyard’s spook threshing the chaff (the Iron Alliance) from
juice refineries. Most of these gangs, the wheat (his troops and the mutants).
unfortunately, raided surrounding survivor
During the Harvest, Rasmussen’s mutants
settlements to gather these trade goods.
attacked a blocking force composed of
For his part, Taylor turned a blind eye. He
the Convoy and Joan’s Heretics south of
couldn’t afford to alienate the road gangs.
Junkyard. Just as it seemed the glowing
horde would overrun the Iron Alliance’s
THE IRON ALLIANCE positions, the legendary Harbinger
descended from the sky in a sleek black
This alliance of disparate groups grew
ship, and revealed himself at last…
out of Junkyard’s boss, Ike Taylor, and his
realization that the only way that Junkyard …to be none other than Dr. Darius
would have a chance against Silas and Hellstromme! He had returned from his long
his mutant crusade—to say nothing of absence, and in a shiny white new body,
Throckmorton’s Combine—was to forge a to boot. More importantly, a blazing red
coalition of like-minded folks. After a whole electronic eye was mounted in the center of
lot of diplomacy and more than a little bit his robotic head. The mutants—both Heretic
of luck, Taylor managed to put together the and Silas’ faithful—were awestruck, and the
Junkyard Summit. It took a hell of a lot of attack on the Iron Alliance petered out as
courting, but Taylor eventually managed to the mutant horde followed Hellstromme’s
convince the junkers of the Chamber, Joan’s orders to return to the City o’ Sin and await
Heretic mutants, the Templars, and
a whole bunch of other groups that
an alliance against the Combine was
necessary. It took another few months
to actually get them to agree on terms,
but the hard part was over.
It was a good thing, too, because
Throckmorton was just about ready for
his coming out party. We’ll tell you all
about that under The Harvest, below.

THE HARVEST
The Combine’s General Throckmorton
had long set his sites on Junkyard. But to
take down the home of the Iron Alliance
he knew he’d need more than just his
robotic automatons and Black Hats. It
took a few years, but Throckmorton
convinced Silas Rasmussen and his
mutants to ally with his legions in
exchange for free plunder of Junkyard.
The showdown came on New
Year’s Day of 2096. On one side stood
Junkyard and her allies, called the Iron
Alliance; on the other, the Combine
and the mutant hordes of the Cult
of Doom. Throckmorton called the
attack Operation Harvest—later just

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his arrival. Some of the more radical stayed
to take part in the slaughter, but without the AFTERMATH
Mutant King’s Cult of Doom, the Combine’s
After the Harvest, most of the major
“Harvest” broke on the walls of Junkyard.
players went back to their homes to lick
Most in the Alliance wanted to call their wounds and regroup.
it quits there, but the Grand Master of
If you played or read the original
the Templars, Jo, convinced the army to
Deadlands Hell on Earth, this is where
counterattack and pursue the Combine
the story stopped—right after the events
all the way back to Denver. The next big
described in The Unity. Everything from
twist was a reverse of what happened at
this point forward is brand new.
Junkyard. The Iron Alliance was on the
outskirts of Denver when a new—actually
very old—player emerged. The Combine
Throckmorton’s army suffered badly
The Battle of Worms during the Harvest but it’s still a force to
be reckoned with. Throckmorton lost a big
Just as the Combine was on its last
chunk of his robotic forces, so he doesn’t
metallic legs, Raven showed up, marching
deploy them outside of Denver anymore.
from across the Mississippi at the head of
Back in the day, Black Hats who got into
an army of undead, Mojave rattlers, and
trouble could count on backup from a
wormlings!
squadron of automatons or worse. Now,
This unholy horde smashed into the forces folks can usually take down a squad of
of the Iron Alliance besieging Denver, then Black Hats without any real fear of reprisal.
proceeded to attack the Combine for good
measure. Despite the high-tech weaponry
wielded by their living foes, Raven’s troops
The Muties
were handily winning the battle until the Following the events of the Harvest and
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse showed the news of the Harbinger’s arrival, mutants
up to save the day. outside of Vegas are a little lost. They now
know Silas isn’t the mutant savior he claims
That’s right. The Reckoners.
to be and that’s causing major dissension
Apparently, Raven and his dark masters in the ranks.
had a bit of a falling out. It’s unclear why
For his part, Silas is cleverly recasting
they decided to fight it out in the middle
the fight at Junkyard as an attack by the
of the Harvest, but before things got too far
Iron Alliance on all mutantkind. Casting
out of hand, Dr. Darius Hellstromme played
the norms of Junkyard as a common
one last card.
enemy is working, albeit somewhat slowly.
The world’s most famous mad scientist Silas just has to make sure Joan and her
somehow managed to capture the troublemakers are kept far from the city.
Reckoners in one of his infernal devices. His Doombringers are scouring the West
He was badly wounded in the process and doing just that—hunting and killing her
believed himself dying, so he turned the heretics and hoping to catch Joan herself
lockbox of evil over to a band of heroes. outside the walls of the Iron Oasis one day.
They vanished and that was the last anyone
has seen of the Reckoners since that day.
Librarians
The furious Raven kept up his attack on
Lately, the Librarians have been a lot more
Denver and burrowed underneath the Mile
reclusive than usual. Though they weren’t
High City, making tunnels for the legions
directly involved in the Harvest, several
of wormlings and undead following behind.
Librarian advisors had been dispatched
The tunnels collapsed soon after and
to the Iron Oasis well before that massive
Denver has been a ghost town ever since.
showdown. Since the battle, these advisors
have been recalled. Most folks chalk it up

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to the fact that the biggest battle this side After Simon’s death, Templar Jo Wales
of the Last War has been won, but some was named Grand Master. It was she who
suspect something more sinister. lead the knights during the Harvest.
Whatever the case, the Librarians aren’t
talking. Further, the order now combs the The Road Gangs
Wasted West for manuscripts with fresh
Ike’s handling of the local road gangs
intensity, and has been known to ask
paid off in spades during the Harvest. When
after specific books. It’s pretty unlikely
Raven showed up to kick the snot out of
these Librarians are looking for the latest
both the Iron Alliance and the Combine, the
installment in the Dusk teen vampire series,
road gangs were right up on the front lines.
and they seem more and more desperate as
They suffered horrific casualties chasing
time rolls on.
Throckmorton’s troops back across the
Rockies and during the Battle of Worms,
The Chamber and most gangs are operating at only about
a quarter of the strength they once had.
The Chamber provided a whole slew
of high tech weapons during the Harvest For the first few months after the Harvest,
to the Iron Alliance, and many of their the gangs’ survivors were pretty happy
acolytes served with the good guys during rolling around in their loot, booze, and
the defense of Junkyard. Not many took debauchery. Taylor even let them celebrate
part in the chase back to Denver or were
at the Battle of Worms so the Chamber
came out of the war fairly unscathed.
With things worse off for most people
than they were before the Harvest, more
and more folks are looking to the junkers
for help.

The Templars
About six months before the Harvest,
Simon Mercer, founder and leader of the
Templars, ventured to Junkyard to discuss
its defense against the Combine. Simon
was stubborn as always and could not
tolerate Ike’s willingness to work with
the road gangs, but he was slowly being
convinced to come down off his high
horse and fight the greater evil when
disaster struck.
A Combine infiltration group sent to
sabotage the talks attacked the gathered
officials and Simon was killed. There are
various rumors as to the circumstances
of his death. Some say he was gunned
down by the Combine infiltrator cyborg.
Others claim Simon was followed to
Junkyard by the “Boise Horror” that
plagued his hometown for years and it
finally claimed the Grand Master. And
there are some who even whisper that
Simon secretly was the Boise Horror,
and a group of unknown heroes ended
his murderous existence.

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 RAVEN AND THE WORMS
For a long time after the Last War,
no one really knew what was going
on east of the Mississippi. Turns out,
Raven was over there wiping out the
few survivor settlements that held
out against the hordes and building
up his own undead legions in the
process. Most folks figured the
undead would come rolling across
the Mississippi sooner or later, but it
was a hell of a shock when Raven
was at their head.
His alliance with the worms,
however, was an even bigger
surprise. The worms first appeared
back in the 19th Century, a little
while after the Reckoning began.
Folks just figured they were another
kind of evil critter, since all sorts
of new weirdness was popping up
across the West. There were even
different strains: Mojave rattlers in
the southwest, Salt rattlers in Utah,
and so forth.
It was obvious from the start the
worms were cunning creatures, but
no one guessed how smart they
really were until they showed up
during the Harvest. Turned out the
giant worms believed themselves
to be ancient gods now devoid of
worshippers. By creating a new
race of hybrid humans and worms
through dark magic, they were
essentially creating new worshippers
and giving themselves power.
Or so the stories go.
When Raven’s forces were finally
defeated around Denver, the worms
and their legions of wormling
minions burrowed enormous tunnels
into the Rockies. Raven and his
undead horde followed, then closed
the passages behind them. What
happened after that is anybody’s
guess.
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within the walls of Junkyard, a line the
road gangs were never allowed to cross in
the old days. As time has gone by, even the
thickest heads in the road gangs are starting
to notice they suffered the brunt of the
casualties during the Harvest, and they’ve
started picking fights with Yarders to make
up the difference, as well as victimizing the
refugees camped outside the walls.
The Iron Alliance
The Iron Alliance was badly battered by
the Harvest. Ike Taylor and a few key leaders
fear that the defeat of the Cult of Doom and
the Combine was a pyrrhic victory for the
good guys, one from which they might not
be able to recover.
The Convoy, that traveling caravan that
made the rounds of the Wasted West each
year and provided a tenuous thread that
connected hundreds of survivor settlements
large and small, was basically destroyed in
the fighting. The Sky Pirates lost a large
number of irreplaceable high-tech military
aircraft, as well as scores of converted
civilian planes, gutting the force.
The one bright spot is that the city of
Junkyard itself weathered the storm fairly
well, only losing a few hundred during
the Harvest and being untouched by the
Battle of Worms outside Denver. The bad
news is that a large and ever-growing
refugee population is now camped outside
the walls, as well as outcast mutants and
the remnants of various road gangs. This
volatile mix could explode at any time, with
results that could devastate Junkyard.
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GAZETTEER
We’ve given you the who and the what
and the why and even the when. Now it’s
time to talk about the where.
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
No one goes across the “Bloody Old
Muddy” anymore. Why? Because the heavily
populated East Coast was devastated by
bombs with a death toll in the tens of
millions. All those dead people mean lots
of horrors and certainly millions of walking
dead. Despite Raven’s assault across the
Mississippi during the Harvest, legions of
walking dead still cover the earth within
a few hundred miles of the east bank of
the Mississippi. Maybe farther. Maybe as
far as the coast. No one knows. Even the
River Watch, a group of volunteers who
man stations up and down the Mississippi,
don’t have a good handle on just how many
deaders remain over there.
A few months ago a photo recon drone
was sent by the Iron Alliance that beamed
back pictures as far east as Tennessee
until contact was lost. Its cameras revealed
uncountable zombie hordes aimlessly
shuffling across the landscape.
GREAT BASIN
Deseret (Utah), Nevada, Las Vegas
This part of the continent is about as hot
as it gets, with hundreds of miles of blasted
desert in all directions. The Basin was bad
enough before the ozone layer vaporized in
the Apocalypse. Now it’s an oven.
There are dozens of great rattlers here
as well. Beware the great worms and the
pockets of wormlings they surround
themselves with. Not all of these hideous
creatures disappeared with Raven.
Junkyard
The ruins of Salt Lake City (Junkyard or
the Iron Oasis) is the most advanced city
left in the Wasted West and the capital of
the new Iron Alliance. Junkyard can provide
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just about anything a survivor needs in the
way of pre- or post-war tech, as long as
she has the dinero to pay for it.
The Iron Oasis sits at the foot of the
Wasatch Mountains on a dry and dusty
plain. From a distance, it looks exactly like
its name, a jumbled pile of rusted metal.
Up close, it doesn’t look much better, but at
least some signs of life are visible.
Since the Harvest, Junkyard is jam-packed
with refugees living off algae and water
handouts from Junkyard’s Council, and
their numbers seem to grow larger with
each passing week.
Junkyard has a population of roughly 9,000
people, with a full-time militia of around
800 troops. Space is at a premium inside the
city walls, but for the lucky ones who live
there, there is running water, electricity, TV,
phone service, and even a limited internet!
Another 5,000 folks are camped in the
shantytowns that have sprung up outside
the walls since the Harvest, as well as
another 2,000 or more mutants in their own
separate camp centered around a “Welcome
Center.” Joan and her Heretics set this up to
indoctrinate the children of the Glow into
the ways of “civilized” mutantdom.
Junkyard lays claim to all territory within
50 miles of its walls. Deseret Routes 80
and 84 are cleared and maintained, with
checkpoints at the border. One peculiarity
of Junkyard’s territory is the Amnesty
Zone. No one can be arrested or attacked
for crimes committed outside the city’s
borders, which encourages peaceful trade
with the many gangs that bring trade to the
Iron Oasis.
Lost Vegas
Nearby, Las Vegas (sometimes Lost
Vegas) is home to one of the main threats
to the Iron Alliance—Silas Rasmussen’s
Mutant Kingdom. While the “Mutant King”
may not be as popular as he was before the
appearance of the Harbinger, a cornered
radrat is the most dangerous, and Silas
feels mighty cornered these days.
There are roughly 10,000 mutants in Las
Vegas now, which is about half what there
was before the Harvest. A few thousand
have sought out Joan, but massive numbers
of the genetically altered were slain in the
battle. The city is patrolled by Silas’ private
guards. These include armed mutants
and usually a Doomsayer. At the ruins of
the Luxor, where Silas holds court, he is
attended by a number of Doombringers
he frequently sends out on some terrible
mission or another.
THE GREAT MAZE
NorCal, SoCal, The City of Lost Angels
In 1868, California suffered a “Great
Quake” that shattered most of the coast
into a maze of flooded sea canyons. Ghost
rock was discovered there soon after and it
became a booming labyrinth of greed and
death.
The Maze is much like it was 200
years ago. Towns once connected with
civilization by phones, TV, and satellites
now sit isolated. Many boomtowns still
survive around active ghost rock mines,
and a ragtag collection of ships transports
the ore from the towns to buyers on the
mainland. Most of it goes to survivor towns
around the West, which need the fuel for
power. The rest goes to the few towns that
know how to make spook juice as fuel for
cars, like Junkyard.
The Great Maze is home to many Asian
communities. A long time ago, a Chinese
warlord named Kang established a criminal
empire the likes of which the world had
never seen. He founded the three cities of
Dragon’s Breath, Lion’s Roar, and Bear’s
Claw and filled them with immigrants
from throughout Asia. This Oriental
blend embraced everything from ninjas to
samurai to kung fu masters and more, and
eventually melded into a culture all its own.
Lost Angels
The old City of Lost Angels lies underwater
with only the remains of the Rock Island
Prison above water. The people who live on
the outskirts of this sunken ruin call their
town Perdition, and most make a living
scavenging the underwater remains, often
selling reputed relics of the old Church.
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Actually, there are two sunken cities. The
first City of Lost Angels was demolished in
a massive flood in 1880 (for the full details,
see Deadlands: The Flood). That wiped out
what some say was a church and others
say was a cannibal cult under Reverend
Ezekiah Grimme.
A few years later, survivors of the
congregation rebuilt parts of the city on
what land remained. The church-going
types were plagued by the surrounding
“heathens,” however, and eventually built a
massive wall of pure obsidian around the
inner city. At some point, they formally
declared their independence as “the Free
and Holy City of Lost Angels,” much like
the Vatican.
The surrounding settlement, Perdition,
became a quasi-independent protectorate,
but was more like a bastard step-child of the
church than an incorporated town. Crime
and bizarre occult happenings plagued the
area right up until the bombs were dropped.
Perdition was leveled, but the inner city
survived intact. Some say the walls–or
perhaps the Almighty—even deflected
some of the bombs outward (like onto
the still-burning town of Purgatory). That
didn’t last long though, because Famine
herself attacked the fortress with legions of
Faminites and other horrors. The Reckoner
finally breached the walls and all appeared
lost when a mighty beam of light and
energy struck down from the Heavens. The
city was rubbled into the ocean once again.
Famine survived, but lost her undead steed
and most all of her army. She staggered up
out of the foaming brine, headed east, and
was not seen again until the Harvest.
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Following Judgment Day, volcanoes,
earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis
occurred all over the world. In the
Northwest, Mount St. Helens and Mt. Rainier
erupted. The eruptions lasted for the better
part of six months—covering Washington,
Oregon, and Idaho in a layer of choking
gray ash. Go into a ruin or anywhere else
the near-constant rain doesn’t reach and
you’ll still see piles of the stuff. After the
eruptions, things went back to semi-normal.
It rains three-quarters of the year west of
the Cascade Range. Idaho is a bit drier, but
since it doesn’t get the warm Pacific winds
it gets colder and has a lot more snow in
the winter. Make sure to scavenge both
a solid raincoat and a heavy winter coat
when traveling this part of the country.
Survivor settlements in the Northwest
are few and far between. The severe winters
since the end of the war seem to have been
especially vicious in this area. Many of the
roads have been heavily damaged by frost
and are nearly impassable.
Of course, Idaho is the home of the
Templars, as detailed earlier. Portland
has a survivor settlement based at a
replica medieval Japanese fortress and
only welcomes those of Asian extraction.
Recently they launched a war of expansion
into the Willamette Valley that has been
surprisingly successful. Seattle has a
number of strange sites that are better
left undisturbed, although an enterprising
aviator has set up a one-man airline for
those looking for quick transportation.
THE HIGH PLAINS
Colorado, Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming
The High Plains cover a lot of territory.
Mostly, they’re covered in tall grass, low
hills, and shallow gullies. A few areas are
much more dramatic, like the Badlands or
Yellowstone, but most of the High Plains
are fairly flat. Sometimes they’re called the
Irradiated Plains because the fallout just
keeps blowing around the flat prairies. Rain
washes it down one day, then a week of hot
sun dries it out for the constant breeze to
kick back into the air. A wise traveler keeps
a scarf over his mouth when crossing the
plains. That keeps the worst of the fallout
from getting in your lungs and might add a
few more minutes to your life.
The eastern part of this region also has a
lot of undead who crossed the river when
Raven made his move at the end of the
Harvest. If you stop to pick up hitchhikers,
make sure they’ve got a pulse.
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Splashed like a bloodstain across any
map of this region is the area dominated
by the Combine. Black Hats roam the High
Plains demanding tribute from whatever
settlements they can bully. Unfortunately
for them, the losses suffered in the Harvest
and the Battle of Worms haven’t been made
up for, so most Black Hat patrols are on
their own with little chance of backup
from heavier hitters like automatons and
airborne raptors.
Groups of Combine slavers, called Chain
Dogs, have been scouring the area since
the Harvest looking for those with any kind
of mundane technological know-how and
“recruiting” them for the Combine’s cause.
Those traveling through Montana will
find survivors insular and xenophobic. Most
belonged to anti-government groups before
the Big Bang, and some fear wanderers
are really spies for a New World Order
government coming to assimilate them.
For those looking for a more welcoming
community with a bit of retail opportunities,
check out the Mall of America outside the
ruins of St. Paul. As long as you’ve got
money, you can find just about anything
you could want there.
LOWER MISSISSIPPI AND DELTA
Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri
The Mighty Miss flooded her banks
sometime after the Apocalypse, and it’s still
flooded today. It’s about 12 feet higher than
it used to be and can get much worse during
a good rain. That caused the Mississippi to
shift its course, overrunning the levees and
turning most of lower Louisiana into a vast,
stinking swamp.
As if that isn’t bad enough, during the
Harvest the hordes of undead crossed the
river following Raven to his battle with
the Reckoners. While most went through
Missouri like a swarm of army ants and on
into Kansas, a general surge came across
all along the river from Arkansas north to
Iowa. Most moved on to points west, but
Arkansas and Missouri are still crawling
with all sorts of undead monstrosities.
Most of the cities along the river are
drowned ruins these days. A survivor
settlement clings to the ruins of Baton
Rouge and a few crazies live in and around
New Orleans, but most people to be found
along the river are Cajuns who live in the
trackless swamps that stretch for miles
away from the river’s edges. The easiest
way to get around is by water, but travelers
should be heavily armed to fend off both
river pirates as well as the monsters that
lurk below the murky, sluggishly moving
surface.
THE WILD SOUTHWEST
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
The Southwest is just as hot and arid as
you think it is. Probably worse.
One thing that surprises most folks,
however, is how many different types of
terrain there are in this area. You’ve got
rocky canyons and narrow passes in New
Mexico and Arizona, rolling hills and flat
plains in Texas, and a vast, brushy expanse
in Oklahoma. About the only thing all four
states have in common is their dry heat.
Here’s a bit about the things you’ll find in
this mixed environment.
The Southwest rivals the Great Maze for
the most road gangs. The reason for this is
clear: the oil fields in Texas and Oklahoma
draw just as many road monsters as the
ghost rock mines of the Great Maze. By
the early 21st century the oil industry got a
major boost by legislation that was passed
to lessen the effects of ghost rock emissions
on Global Worming. Yup, Worming. This was
a theory that the by-products from burning
ghost rock were actually responsible for
the increasing numbers of Mojave rattlers
and their related species that seemed to be
appearing around the world.
The use of oil to replace ghost rock
was one way to lessen its effects, and the
Confederacy’s government went big into this
alternative energy source both to reduce the
worm population and also to boost jobs in
the economic depression of 2010–2015. Most
of the drilling sites and production facilities
were badly damaged during the war by
air strikes and cruise missile attacks, but
determined oil company engineers were
able to keep some sites open and the oil
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flowing. Today the various fuel towns, as
they are known, send their products as far
as the Great Maze in heavily armed convoys.
THE INDIAN NATIONS
Before the Last War, two large political
entities emerged from the First Civil
War to stake a claim to territory for the
original inhabitants of North America. In
the Dakotas the Sioux took advantage of
the Union’s distraction with their rebellious
neighbors to the South and booted
the white man out of their territory. In
Oklahoma’s “Indian Territory” a coalition
of Cherokee, Comanche, Creek, Seminole,
Kiowa, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians
saw the success of the Sioux and, longing
for a similar degree of independence,
decided to follow suit. This proud group of
tribes formed themselves into a new nation,
called the Coyote Confederation, and was
led by an enigmatic figure known only as
“Coyote.”
THE SIOUX NATIONS
The Dakotas
Many Sioux had been preaching a return
to the “Old Ways” since the Reckoning
began, way back in the 19th Century. This
movement basically requires all members of
the Sioux Nations to use only natural tools,
weapons, clothes, transportation, and so
on. Using any sort of mass produced item,
riding trains (and later cars), or drinking
whiskey is taboo to these folks.
To enforce the Old Ways, and level the
playing field with the white man, hundreds
of medicine men gathered to perform a
massive ritual over the course of a week.
The Great Summoning was a success. With a
great peal of thunder, a mighty earthquake,
and a great gust of wind across the plains,
the white man’s technology no longer
functioned within the borders of the Sioux
Nations (see Deadlands: The Last Sons).
With the nature spirits’ help, the Sioux
were able to carve out a sovereign nation
that covered most of the Dakota Territory,
along with parts of Montana, Wyoming,
and Nebraska, where they lived as their
ancestors had lived right up to and beyond
Judgment Day. In the two centuries since
the formation of the Sioux Nations, the
various tribes have intermarried so much
that they now consider themselves only a
single tribe—the Lakota.
The Sioux fared well during the Last
War. They didn’t get invaded, and nobody
nuked them. Even their huge buffalo herds
managed to escape the livestock plagues
that wiped out so many cattle and cows.
Big medicine. But then War headed into the
Dakotas after he finished razing Kansas.
The Old Wayers met him with bows,
arrows, and tomahawks. In the ensuing
battles, the Sioux were reduced to a few
dozen small villages scattered across the
Dakota wasteland, but they were still better
off than most folks in the Wasted West.
Thirteen years later, the Sioux were
more or less untouched by the worst of
the Harvest as Raven’s march west from the
Mississippi took him quite a ways south of
the Dakota territories.
These days most Sioux live roughly the
same lifestyle they did 200 years ago. The
population of the Sioux Nations is much
smaller than it was just before the war.
No one has taken an exact count, but the
Lakota today number no more than 10,000.
Of the seven major clans that existed before
the war only four remain: the Hunkpapa,
Oglala, Burnt Thigh, and Minneconjou. The
Sihasapa, Itazipacola, and Oohenupa clans
were wiped out in the struggle to defeat
War. The few survivors of these clans
were adopted into the others. The clans
normally break up into hunting parties of
30 families or so during the summer. They
lead a nomadic existence across the plains,
hunting buffalo and finding good grazing
for their horses.
The Ravenites and Deadwood
One of the terms of the treaty that
outlined the borders of the Sioux nation in
the 1800s was the foundation of Deadwood.
This was an American city in the heart of
Sioux territory, with only one rail line in and
out. A lot of Sioux didn’t much like the idea,
but Deadwood was already founded by the
time the treaty signing rolled around and
the concession spared a lot of bloodshed.
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Unlike some folks, the Sioux actually
honored their treaty. Deadwood was spared
the effects of the Great Summoning, as
was the Iron Dragon rail line that carried
folks to and from the treaty city. Over the
years, Sioux who became disillusioned
with the Old Ways found their way or were
banished to Deadwood, giving it a large
Indian population who were referred to as
Ravenites.
Eventually, all mining of the Black Hills
was turned over to the Ravenites, and the
banished Sioux ruled the roost in Deadwood.
They used their riches to buy up property
in the treaty city, where they started all
kinds of businesses, including casinos,
arms factories, and ghost rock refineries.
The Ravenites were living high on the
hog when Raven himself showed up just
before Judgment Day. For whatever reason,
Raven was pretty pissed at the people of
Deadwood. He waded on in a few days
before the bombs fell and laid waste to the
place. Some folks think he was looking for
something, but he didn’t seem too concerned
about blowing up anything he came across.
The survivors fled into the wilderness, and
a few days after the destruction ended, the
world ended. Today Deadwood is a jumble
of high rise ruins, but the old arms factories
might contain treasure troves of firepower
for those brave enough to enter.
THE COYOTE WASTELAND
Parts of Oklahoma (The former Coyote
Confederation)
The Sioux Nations weren’t the only
sovereign territory the Indians carved
out back in the 19th Century. The Coyote
Confederation included most of the area of
Oklahoma, the region once called Indian
Territory. The Union didn’t really recognize
the place, but that didn’t matter much since
the Confederacy did.
Unfortunately, the tribes of the Coyote
Confederation weren’t as keen on the Old
Ways as the Sioux. A few tribes hewed to
the wishes of the spirits, but many ignored
them.
Eventually, the Coyote tribes tried a Great
Summoning of their own but something
went terribly wrong. Thousands of Indians
were killed and the land was irreparably
damaged in an event later called the Great
Wasting.
Things went from bad to worse after that.
The Confederacy stepped in pretty quickly,
ostensibly in the name of humanitarian aid.
They helped out for a while, but part of the
deal was the Coyote Confederation had to
join the Confederacy as a subject nation in
exchange for this aid, and they didn’t get the
benefit of representation in the Confederate
government.
It wasn’t long before life in the Coyote
Confederation was even worse than on
the reservations farther west. Poverty was
widespread, and despite the efforts of a few
ecological organizations, the effects of the
Great Wasting never really got cleaned up.
Worse, the Confederacy started using Coyote
lands as a dumping ground for its ecological
excesses. It was the ideal place for the rebel
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nation to build its nuclear weapons facilities
with no one in government to object to
the nasty nuclear waste produced. This
area soon became known as the Coyote
Wasteland.
After Judgment Day, it’s a thousand times
worse than it was before the war. With all
the nuclear facilities there, it was a popular
target for Union city busters. The excessive
radiation, combined with the environmental
corruption from before the Apocalypse,
makes the wastelands of the former Coyote
Confederation completely hostile to human
life. The area is ruled by savage tribes of
Indians and corrupt toxic shamans tainted
by the supernatural energies that bathe
the area in evil. Monstrous mutants roam
the area, looking for human meat. Even the
forces of Silas are not welcome here in this
bizarre mutant kingdom.
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 MAKIN’ HEROES
Making characters for Deadlands: Hell
on Earth is as easy as creating characters
for any Savage Worlds game. Perhaps the
hardest part is figuring out what kind of
character to play. Once you do that, actually
filling out your character sheet is a breeze.
Below are a number of common character
types found in the Wasted West.
Adventurer: You have no real profession,
at least not anymore. You simply wander
the Wasted West looking for something
better. You might have been a waitress
or a lawyer, but whatever your trade, you
find little call for it these days. You weren’t
the heroic type before the war, and may
not have stepped up to the plate since.
Sooner or later, though, Fate’s gonna come
knocking at your door.
Doomsayer: Most Doomsayers are evil
right down to their irradiated hearts, but
your hero is one of those who rebelled
against the “Cult of Doom.” All Doomsayers
believe norms are doomed in this brave,
new, radioactive world, but the Cult of
Doom slaughters them by the hundreds
to hurry things along. Heroic Doomsayers
are members of a splinter faction led by
Joan the Heretic. You still believe norms are
doomed, but don’t need to be hurried along
on the path of extinction.
Gunslinger: You sell your guns to the
highest bidder or those in need, depending
on your personal code. Duels are still fairly
common in the lawless lands of the Wasted
West, so you’re either quick or dead. The
way things are these days, you just might
be both.
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Indian Brave: The shamans of the
Native American “Old Ways” movement long
ago foretold that technology was leading
humanity to a bitter fall. Entire nations of
Indians threw aside technology in favor of
the ways of their ancestors, and were more
prepared for Judgment Day than anyone else
in the Wasted West. You rely on the tools of
your ancient ancestors to battle the horrors
of the Wasted West.
Junker: You wander the wastelands
collecting junk with which to build
your incredible gadgets. Some claim the
inspiration for your infernal gizmos comes
from the evil spirits responsible for bringing
about the Apocalypse.
Law Dog: You’ve taken a solemn oath to
return law and order to the Wasted West.
You have no real authority other than that
which you can exert with your six-gun and
your will. Your enemies are many and the
rewards are few, but someone must bring
justice to the Wasted West.
Librarian: While some folks burn books
just to keep warm at night, you dedicate
your life to preserving knowledge that few
others care about. You’re convinced that
man will someday need these secrets to
rebuild all that was lost on Judgment Day.
Postman: Some folks would give just
about anything to get a letter to Aunt Ethel
down in Texas, but you only charge a fistful
of bullets or a few milrats. There’s not much
left of civilization, but thanks to you the
mail still gets through.

Ravenite: You’re an American Indian
but you laughed at the “Old Ways.” You
embraced technology and became rich
before the Big Bang, selling ghost rock from
the once-sacred Black Hills of the Dakotas.
Now you’re a well-armed wanderer, forced
to flee when Deadwood was destroyed by
Raven himself. Some Ravenites refuse to
acknowledge their part in the Apocalypse;
others seek retribution against those who
led them astray.
Road Warrior: You’re always chasing
the next tank of spook juice and one more
sunrise. You often help towns plagued by
highway marauders in exchange for goods,
fuel, or ghost rock. The odds are often
overwhelming, so most road warriors outfit
their rigs with salvaged armor and heavy
guns.
Savage: You have little or no memory
of the world before the bombs. You might
be part of a community where the elders
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are reviled for destroying the world, or
maybe you’re an idealistic youth looking to
become a great hero and perhaps discover
a little of the old world you never knew.
Scavenger: You are one of the few
brave enough to enter the blasted cities
in the search for salvage. You brave ghost
rock storms, irradiated battlefields, and the
creatures of the Deadlands in your quest
for the treasures left behind after the Last
War. Most scavengers meet violent ends,
but you plan to be one of the lucky few
who become wealthy traders.
Soldier: Not everyone who wore a
uniform was killed during the Last War.
You survived because you were a deserter
or coward, or perhaps because fate made
you the sole survivor of a unit annihilated
in the final days before the bombs. Now
you wander the wastes, offering your grim
services to those who feed you—or pay you
enough bullets for the next fight.
Syker: You’re a former soldier with
incredible mental powers. You learned your
amazing trade in government academies
where you were made into a commando,
spy, and assassin. In the years before the
Apocalypse, you may have been deployed
to the alien world of Banshee, or into the
meat grinder of the Last War. At first, your
specialized skills were used as intended,
but you were later thrown into the front
lines as the war expanded and generals
became desperate. Now you’re a wanderer,
distrusted thanks to your mighty mental
powers, and easily recognizable due to your
complete lack of hair.
Tale Teller: Humanity cannot survive
without hope. You join with other heroes to
defeat the many evils of the Wasted West,
and then make sure the locals hear tell
of the victory. Some tale tellers are not so
noble, instead performing only for a simple
meal and a warm bed.
Templar: You travel the Wasted West
searching for communities and individuals
worthy of your aid, but you turn away from
those who do not live up to your ideals.
You travel in disguise to better judge local
populations. Once revealed, you are a
noble figure adorned with a white tabard
emblazoned with a red Maltese cross.
 Toxic Shaman: Called a spook because The following skills are available in Hell
of the spook juice you drink, you draw power on Earth Reloaded:
from the warped nature spirits that arose
from the toxins and pollution that blight
the land. You travel the Wastes, fighting evil SKILLS
and healing (or harming) the land.
Skill Linked Attribute
Trader: You discovered, earned, or stole Boating Agility
great treasures to barter with others. You Climbing Strength
now travel the Wasted West seeking new Driving Agility
markets for your goods, and a lead on your Faith Spirit
next big score. Fighting Agility
Gambling Smarts
Healing Smarts
MAKING CHARACTERS Intimidation Spirit
Investigation Smarts
Knowledge Smarts
Once you’ve decided on a concept for
Lockpicking Agility
your waster, it’s time to figure out his
Notice Smarts
statistics. You’ll find a character sheet
Persuasion Spirit
designed specifically for this setting both
Piloting Agility
in the back of this book and at our website
Psionics Smarts
at www.peginc.com.
Repair Smarts
Riding Agility
RACE Shooting Agility
Stealth Agility
Humans are the only race allowed in
Streetwise Smarts
Deadlands: Hell on Earth. The good news is
Survival Smarts
they get their free starting Edge as usual.
Swimming Agility
You can choose any ethnicity you like. As
Taunt Smarts
in our own world, America was a melting
Throwing Agility
pot of different cultures before Judgment
Tracking Smarts
Day. Further, The Last War involved forces
Weird Science Smarts
from all over the world. A lot of the worst
fighting went down in North America and
left military units from every major nation LANGUAGES
stranded here when the world ended.
Most folks in the Americas, regardless of
where they hail from originally, have gone
TRAITS out of their way to learn the language of
the land. That’s English, waster.
Next you assign your hero’s attributes and
skills. Your character begins play with a d4
in each of his five attributes: Agility, Smarts, SECONDARY STATISTICS
Spirit, Strength, and Vigor. You have 5 points
• Charisma is a measure of your hero’s
to distribute among these attributes as you
likability, and is added to Persuasion
choose. Raising an attribute by a die type
and Streetwise rolls. Your Charisma
costs 1 point, and you may not raise an
modifier is +0, unless changed by Edges
attribute above d12.
or Hindrances.
After attributes, you have 15 points to
• Pace is equal to 6”.
buy your skills. Raising a skill by a die type
costs 1 point, as long as it’s no higher than • Parry is equal to 2 plus half your
the attribute it’s linked to. It costs 2 points Fighting die.
per die type to raise a skill above its linked
• Toughness is equal to 2 plus half your
attribute. Like attributes, skills cannot be
Vigor die.
raised above d12.

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HINDRANCES
Now decide if you want Hindrances. If so,
you may use those points to gain any of
the benefits below. You may take one Major
Hindrance (worth 2 points) and two Minor
Hindrances (worth 1 point each). You may
take additional Hindrances beyond this, but
you do not gain points for them.
For 2 Hindrance points you can:
• Raise an attribute one die type, or
• Choose an Edge
For 1 Hindrance point you can:
• Gain another skill point, or
• Gain an additional $250
GEAR
Each hero starts with the clothes on his
back and $250. Once you’ve purchased your
initial equipment, your remaining cash is
converted to trade goods for bartering (see
Currency on page 41 for more information).
You’ll want to spend some of that on
weapons, ammunition, and whatever equip­
ment you want. You’ll find a complete list
starting on page 42.
BACKGROUND
Finish up by filling out your hero’s
background. Think about where he came
from, where he was when the bombs
dropped, and how he got where he is now.
Consider his hopes and dreams, friends and
foes, and any traits he might have.
You should also decide if your hero was
born before Judgment Day. The bombs
dropped on September 23rd, 2081. The
massive battle called the Harvest occurred
in 2096, and it’s now summer of 2097. To
remember the world before the bombs, your
hero is probably 23 years old or older.
It’s been 16 years for most since there were
fast food restaurants, electricity, showers,
and the ability to not believe in monsters.
WORST NIGHTMARE
It’s relatively common knowledge now
that certain really tough individuals come
back from the dead as “Harrowed.” The
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Marshal will tell you more about that if
your hero kicks the bucket, but just in case,
think a bit about what his worst nighmare
would be. It’ll be important.
NEW HINDRANCES
All of the Hindrances listed in Savage
Worlds are available in Deadlands: Hell
on Earth, with the exception of Anemic,
which is replaced by Ailin’. In addition, the
following new Hindrances are available.
Ailin’ (Minor or Major)
Brainers with this Hindrance likely have
a cold grave in the near future. An ailin’
character suffers a –1 penalty to all Fatigue
checks, such as resisting radiation and
disease (see Hazards in Savage Worlds). As
a Major Hindrance, the penalty is -2 and is
often radiation poisoning called “the glows.”
Grim Servant o’ Death (Major)
Your hero’s a killer. His family’s probably
pushing daisies, his enemies are wormling
food, and even a few friends have holes in
‘em the same size as his own shootin’ iron.
Only Wild Cards can take this Hindrance.
The good news is your hombre adds +1
to every single damage roll he ever makes,
whether it’s from Fighting, Shooting, arcane
skills, Throwing things at people in a most
inhospitable manner, or anything else.
The downside is that your hero winds
up in the local survivor settlement’s jail or
on the run a lot. And there’s worse. Any
attack roll that comes up a 1 on the skill
die automatically hits the nearest friendly
character in sight. Player characters are
always first choice, but an allied NPC will
do in a pinch. A Benny may be spent to
change the roll, but a Benny spent is a
Benny burned, as they say.
Even hand-to-hand attacks hit allies when
that nasty 1 comes up. This may require a
little imagination, but either the weapon
flies out of the hero’s hand and strikes his
friend, or the killer moves adjacent to his
compadre and “accidentally” whacks him.
 In either case, if the hero rolls snake eyes,
he damages his ally as if he rolled a raise.
Heavy Sleeper (Minor)
Not even Judgment Day could wake this
Dozing Doolie. Your hero subtracts 4 from
Notice rolls made to wake up, as well
as Spirit and Vigor rolls made to
stay awake.
Lyin’ Eyes (Minor)
Lies just don’t come naturally to
this brainer. That sounds good,
but often causes problems
when dealing with more
nefarious types. Subtract 4
from any Persuasion rolls
where lies—even little white
ones—must be told.
Mutant
(Major/
Minor)
S o m ew h e re
along the line,
your waster
came down
with a bad
case of
the glows
and gained a
mutation for his
troubles. As a Minor Hindrance,
draw one card off the Action
Deck to determine the mutation
(your Marshal has the skinny on
the results on page 95). As a Major
Hindrance, your survivor has likely
picked up a more nasty mutation.
Draw three cards off the Action Deck
to determine the mutation and keep the
lowest (Doomsayers take the lowest of
two cards).
Whatever the case, the mutation is
difficult to hide, and some folks out there
don’t look too kindly on mutants. Your hero
suffers a –2 Charisma penalty when dealing
with these narrow-minded norms.
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Night Terrors (Major)
Your hombre doesn’t sleep well. In fact,
the Land of Nod is a constant nightmare for
him. He tosses and turns like a demon on
a rack, and likely keeps everyone within a
dozen yards of him awake with his nightly
torment. Each night, your hero must make
a Spirit roll or suffer a level of Fatigue,
which he regains the next time he beds
down.
If the Marshal skips over long periods
of time, such as during a trip, roll once
instead of each night that would have
passed.
Rad Intolerant (Major)
Radiation affects your waster
more than most. He suffers a –2
penalty when resisting radiation
(see Savage Worlds, Hazards).
Damage-causing spells of the
Doomsayers or
other creatures
of radioactive
origin cause an
additional 2 points of
damage as well. The
hero suffers both
penalties against
a power that is
resisted and causes
damage.
Slowpoke (Minor)
Your survivor is slow. Maybe
he has a limp from an injury that
never heals, or maybe he’s just
choosey about where he places his
feet. Either way, reduce his Pace
by 1. This is cumulative with the
Lame Hindrance if you really want
to compete in the next tortoise and
hare race. You can guess which one
you are.
Thin-Skinned (Major)
Every little ol’ cut and scrape makes your
waster whine for mama. As long as he has
at least one wound, he suffers an additional
–1 penalty to all his actions (so a hero with
two wounds suffers a –3, for example).

NEW EDGES
The following Edges aren’t used in Hell
on Earth Reloaded: any type of Arcane
Background not listed in this book (nor any
Edge requiring them) and Noble.
BACKGROUND EDGES
Background Edges can be picked up
during play (remember that your hero can
only have one Arcane Background, though).
Arcane Backgrounds
Characters may only take the Arcane
Background Edge once (regardless of the
type chosen), and he may only choose from
those detailed in No Man’s Land (page 69).
Listed below is what most people know
about each type of Arcane Background
and enough information to decide if you’re
interested in reading more.
• Doomsayers: These mutant radiation-
priests channel supernatural energy from
the after-effects of ghost rock and nuclear
bombs.
• Junkers: Mad scientists who scavenge
old technology to make magical and
infernal devices.
• Syker: Psionicists trained in mastering
mental energy and transforming it into
incredible power.
• Templars: Some see these adepts as
heroes, others as selfish and distant.
Templars are strong and noble souls, but
help only those they find deserving.
• Toxic Shamans: Spiritualists who
have learned to communicate with new
and mutated spirits that have arisen in
the ruined world.
Operation Damocles Soldier
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice,
Fighting d6+, Shooting d8+, Survival d6+,
Throwing d6+, Marshal’s approval
Operation Damocles was to be the US
insurance policy in the event of a general
nuclear exchange between the North and
South. Select Special Forces soldiers were
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cryogenically frozen and placed in storage
vaults throughout the US along with their
equipment. In the event of such a disaster,
their mission would be two-fold: defeat any
would-be warlords and help the survivors
rebuild their communities.
A character with the Operation Damocles
Edge has just woken up to find himself in
a strange new world. Maybe his freeze tube
malfunctioned, or maybe a wandering road
gang found his Vault and looted it, leaving
him for dead. Maybe a computer glitch
activated the thawing process.
This Edge can only be taken at character
creation, since Operation Damocles soldiers
start the game with +20 Experience Points
(typically four extra Advances). In addition
to whatever Hindrances the character has
of his own, he also has a Major Vow to
restore civilization and the US, in that order.
Those chosen for this program will give
their lives for that cause. They don’t have to
be idealistic, but they are definitely driven.
These soldiers can never take the Arcane
Background, Harrowed, Rad Resistant, or
Veteran o’ the Wasted West Edges.
Rad Resistant
Requirements: Novice, Vigor d6+
Your brainer could eat rads for breakfast.
He gains +4 on Vigor rolls to resist Fatigue
from radiation. Rad Resistant provides no
benefit versus targeted or damaging effects.
Veteran o’ the Wasted West
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Spirit
d6+, Knowledge (Occult) d6+
Veterans o’ the Wasted West start the
game with +20 Experience Points (typically
four extra Advances). This Edge can only be
taken at character creation.
There’s a price, though. If you take this
Edge, draw a single card from the Action
Deck and show it to your Marshal. He’ll
check the table on page 96 to see just what
kind of bad luck your hombre wandered
into. If you draw a Joker, keep drawing until
you get a red or black card and tell your
Marshal which you got. If your deck has red
and black Jokers, just use that instead.
 Beware, because the results can be quite
extreme—from serious maiming to insanity.
Kung Fu
Your Marshal has the details. You’ve been Requirements: Novice, Martial Artist,
warned, tough guy. Fighting d8+, Spirit d8+
Those who truly dedicate themselves to
Wheels the martial arts often adapt very specific
styles and specialties. Rather than list the
Requirements: Novice, Repair d6+
hundreds of different styles such as Mantis
Your survivor scrounged up a vehicle or Drunken or Shaolin Temple, we’ve broken
of some sort. Even better, he’s managed them down into general categories you can
to keep it in working order! Whether he customize and describe for yourself.
traded for it, fixed up a wreck abandoned
A warrior may know multiple styles by
on the highway, or took the keys of some
taking this Edge additional times, though
no-good road ganger, he snagged himself
no specialty may be taken more than once.
some wheels.
Combined with standard combat Edges
You have $5,000 to build a sweet ride (this such as First Strike and Frenzy, Kung Fu
includes any accessories, as well as fuel). If warriors can be phenomenal fighters.
you have the Rich or Filthy Rich Edge, you
• Confusion: This style emphasizes
apply the multiplier to this money as well
distraction, feints, or keeping a foe
(allowing for some real hot rods). This gives
off-balance. The martial artist can make
you more than the usual additional starting
a Smarts trick and a Fighting attack with
funds, but comes with the downside of
no multi-action penalty.
owning a vehicle in a world without
gas stations and repair shops.
First, your cruiser has to find gas
or spook juice to keep it running.
Second, many highways are clogged
with wrecked and abandoned vehicles.
Even clear roadways are a hazard as
busted-up asphalt and debris-strewn
streets tend to tear up a suspension.
On the plus side, he’ll never have to
deal with the DMV!
See Vehicles starting on page 56 to
build your baby and for how the wear
and tear of the Wasted West affects
your new set of wheels.

COMBAT EDGES
Don’t Get ’im Riled!
Requirements: Wild Card,
Seasoned, Spirit d8+
Your hero adds his wound levels
to both his Fighting rolls and the
damage he causes from them. A hero
with 3 wounds, for instance, adds +3
to his Fighting and Fighting damage
rolls.
 • Focus: The martial artist focuses his
mind to rule out all other distractions,
increasing his accuracy over long
distances. He halves range penalties for
all Shooting or Throwing attacks (–1 at
Medium and –2 at Long).
• Defensive: The martial artist moves in
strange ways or perhaps senses where
his opponent is about to strike. She gains
an additional +2 to Parry when using
the Full Defense maneuver (+4 total), and
ranged attacks suffer a –2 to hit her when
using the maneuver as well.
• Power: The martial artist considers
his Strength to be two die types higher
for Fighting attacks, whether attacking
bare-handed or with melee weapons. This
increases damage and counts toward the
minimum Strength for using a weapon.
• Precision: The attacker looks for
weak spots, pressure points, or other
openings to increase the effectiveness
of his strikes. This counts as +2 AP to
all Fighting attacks. With a raise on a
Fighting attack, the martial artist does
+1d8 damage instead of +1d6.
• Resilient: This fighter has mastered
mind over matter. He gains the Hardy
monstrous ability (see Savage Worlds).
• Speed: The warrior draws an extra
Action Card for initiative. This stacks with
Level Headed and Improved Level Headed.
• Toughness: Those who practice this
style have learned to train their bodies
and minds to ignore their body’s pain.
This grants them +1 to Toughness and
Vigor rolls made to soak damage.
• Trickery: The martial artist adds +2 to
in-combat Taunt rolls and Agility tricks.
PROFESSIONAL EDGES
Guts
Requirements: Veteran, Spirit d6+
Given time, a person can become jaded
to even Hell on Earth. This character halves
the Fear Level penalty (round down) when
making Fear checks.
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Law Dog
Requirements: Novice, Knowledge (Law)
d6+, Shooting d6+, Intimidate d8+, Survival
d6+, Major Vow (bring law to the Wastes)
“Law Dogs” is the name given to those
who try to bring justice to the Wasted
West. Some were actual local or state law
enforcement personnel, a few might have
been at the federal level, some might have
even been Texas Rangers or US Agents
(although most of these heroes died off in
the Last War or the days that followed).
Whatever their history, they all seek to
protect and serve those eking out a living
in the Wastes. All carry badges of some
sort, giving them authority over those who
respect the law (and +2 Charisma). Exactly
what this means depends on the situation,
but most survivor settlements are happy
to embrace an impartial, traveling Law Dog
as judge, arbiter, and peace officer if there
are problems.
The downside is that Law Dogs have
vowed to protect and serve. Unlike Templars,
they tend to help everyone they can.
Librarian
Requirements: Novice, Smarts d8+,
Knowledge (Any) d8+, Notice d8+, Cannot
be Illiterate
This person has joined the Librarians, an
order dedicated to the preservation of the
knowledge gained before the Apocalypse.
He has gone through his initial training and
has been sent into the Wastes to rescue
information.
Librarians receive a free palmcorder
when they join the Order to collect data.
Librarian palmcorders store data on ghost
steel versions of data slugs. Each is about
the size of an AA battery and can store
more information than a large library. If
lost, ghost steel slugs cost $10 to replace.
Librarians are expected to assist each
other in acquiring data and to do whatever
is required to recover lost information.
Effectively, in addition to any other
Hindrances, they also have the Major Vow
(gather and restore knowledge).
 The training of a Librarian grants them
the Investigator Edge for free. Additionally,
their goal of preserving information also
gives them a +2 Charisma when dealing
with any intellectual or scientific people.
Their mission of recovering books
gives them a unique opportunity when
scavenging (page 66). Whenever the character
draws an Ace, they can choose to trade the
listed result for discovering some book on
the Librarians’ want list instead. They’re
rewarded with a Benny immediately and
get 2d6 x $100 on arrival back at the Grand
Library with the volume (along with the
accolades of their superiors).
All Librarians also have free access
to the Grand Library in Sacramento, CA.
Research performed there can find just
about any information with a successful
Investigation roll. The Marshal
has more information on this
(page 119).
A good storyteller not only entertains,
he gives hope and comfort as well. The
survivors of the Last War can use all the
hope and comfort they can find.
When making a Persuasion roll to tell
the tale of your posse’s exploits and reduce
the Fear Level, add +2 to your total. Further,
where most tale tellers bungle the story
when they roll a 1 on the skill die, you do
so only on snake eyes.
Anytime a Tale Teller lowers the Fear
Level, he automatically gains a Benny.
WEIRD EDGES
Harrowed
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Spirit
d6+
Harrowed may only be selected
at character creation.

Scrounger Some wasters are just too

tough to die, so they come
Requirements: Novice, back from the grave. The
Notice d8+ price is an eternal battle
for their own soul with the
Scroungers are those
demonic “manitous” that
brave (or foolish) souls who
provide their incredible
enter the remnants of the
tough­ness and power.
ruined cities of the Wasted
West searching for vital If your character has
supplies—and the occasional been reborn into this
luxury item. Skill in picking unlife, be sure to read the
over the detritus of a devastated Harrowed details (page
town is a prized ability in these 72) in No Man’s Land.
difficult times.
Scroungers get a +2 to LEGENDARY EDGES
Notice rolls when scavenging.
Additionally, if successful, they
double the normal results, Grit
gaining $2d6 x2 on a success
Requirements:
or drawing two cards on a
Legendary, Brave, Guts,
raise (see page 66).
Spirit d8+

Tale Teller What you call Hell, he

calls home. This character
Requirements: ignores Fear Level penalties
Novice, Persuasion d8+, when making Fear Checks.
Charisma +1 or higher

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 EQUIPMENT
Only a fool or a madman ventures out
into the wilds of the Wasted West without SCROUNGING
proper survival gear. Of course, the problem
Scrounging is the ability to find these
in a ruined world is that hardly anything
little baubles and more in the ruins of the
works right. First you have to find what you
wasted world. This is such an important part
want, then make sure it’s got all its parts,
of life in Hell on Earth that we’ve included
isn’t full of mud, and isn’t going to fall
special Setting Rules for it on page 66.
apart the first time you bank it off some
wormling’s skull.
Equipment on the gear list is considered
Selling Goods
to be in good condition. Some other bozo Posses occasionally wind up with spare
has already cleaned it up, taped it together, gear. A Streetwise roll in a settlement of
and used it enough to know it probably isn’t fair size or larger allows the seller to dump
going to blow up. the goods at a quarter the normal value. A
raise nets half the list price. This roll may
CURRENCY be attempted once a week per settlement.
Bartering of larger goods is trickier
There’s no standard currency in the
but tends to pay a little better. A working
Wasted West. Assume “dollars” are trinkets,
computer, for example, is useless to most
small food items, bullets, bits of jewelry, a
wastelanders, even with a generator. A
squirt or two of toothpaste, matches, and
scientist with power and a lab, however,
the like.
might pay dearly. Special cases like this
In general, think of these as currency usually require a little roleplaying to sell
and nothing else. In a pinch, the Marshal properly.
might let a waster roll to find something
important in his “cash,” like a match or
one more bullet for his gun. This is based
AVAILABILITY
on what the character was smart enough The fall of civilization means your hero
to pick up, so he makes a Smarts roll at can’t simply waltz into the local S-Mart and
–2 applying the item’s scarcity Streetwise buy whatever he wants.
modifier (see page 42). On a success, he has
As such, goods are rated for scarcity,
the item and deducts the cost from his
being Common, Uncommon, Scarce, Rare,
“money.”
or Very Rare. This represents how hard it is
to find the item, as well as how many of a
particular item can be bought or sold by the

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characters in a particular day. This includes
all transactions within a 24-hour period,
not just those conducted at a single shop
or market—though if the shoppers travel to
an entirely different settlement, they may
try again. This limit does not apply during
character creation. Some items listed here
do not have a rarity, which means they are
not generally available for trade.
To find a particular item, a character
makes a Streetwise roll. This roll is modified
by the scarcity of the item as well as the
size of the settlement in which the player
finds himself. Small but well-equipped
stores (such as a traveling salesman) are
simply treated as larger settlements.
RARITY TABLE
Number
Scarcity Streetwise Available
Common (C) +2 1d8
Uncommon (U) 0 1d6
Scarce (S) –1 1d4
Rare (R) –2 1d3
Very Rare (VR) –4 1d2
POPULATION MODIFIERS
Streetwise
Population Modifier
Less than 500 –6
500–1,000 –4
1,001–2,000 –2
2000+ +0
Junkyard +2
DAMAGED GOODS
Most anything except services can be
bartered for cheaper than the listed price—if
a waster is willing to settle for a little less
quality. Common items such as clothes are
ratty and torn, hats are crumpled, and dinged
up playing cards can’t be used anywhere
except by the campfire. The effects of these
items are usually situational, though many
items can cause bigger problems…or become
them!
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Damaged vehicles go for 75% of the
list price. Cheap guns, tools, and so
forth—anything a brainer has to roll to
use—malfunction when the player rolls a
1 on the skill die. Your warrior’s dinged-up
golf club, for example, might fall apart while
whacking on some no good mutie.
Items that don’t come into play for skill
rolls might affect others’ perception. A
ratty leather jacket, for example, has blood
stains, tears, and other signs that it might
be fresh off a corpse. These items inflict
a –1 Charisma modifier on your waster.
Even after the Apocalypse a blood-stained
wanderer gives others the creeps.
GEAR NOTES
AMMUNITION
Standard Rounds: Bullets are increasingly
hard to come by, but a number of places,
notably Junkyard, continue to manufacture
them. Standard rounds cause the normal
damage listed with the weapon types later
in this chapter, but for weapons that fire
standard cased bullets (not blackpowder or
shotguns) other rounds are also available:
• Armor Piercing: This type of ammo is
designed to pierce armor and obstacles,
but does less damage against unarmored
soft targets as the bullets don’t deform as
much and inflict less trauma. AP rounds
gain +2 AP, but against targets without
armor they subtract 2 from their damage.
Armor piercing rounds cost 1.5 times
more than normal rounds, and increase
the rarity one step.
• Brass: The casings left over when a
bullet is fired have value in the wastelands
since manufacturing them these days is
almost impossible. Shell casings are worth
half the price of the base ammunition
type (ignore the price of special types,
like frangible or AP).
• Frangible: Frangible ammo is designed
to break apart on impact. This reduces
the chance of dangerous ricochets and
(most importantly for wasters) increases
 the amount of damage the bullet inflicts
on living targets. Frangible rounds do +4
damage to unarmored targets. Against
armor they lose the bonus, any AP value
listed for the gun, and add +4 to the target’s
armor value. Frangible rounds double the
cost of the bullet, and increase the rarity
by two steps. Frangible rounds cannot fire
through any obstacle (see Savage Worlds).
• Hollow Point: These nasty killers are
designed to flatten on impact, tearing a
bigger hole in the target. Hollow point
rounds cause +2 damage to targets with
no armor, but against armor they lose the
bonus, any AP value listed for the gun,
and add +2 to the target’s armor value.
They can be made fairly easily from
normal ammunition and a file. A Repair
roll and 30 minutes “hollows” 5 bullets
with a success or 15 with a raise. Failure
grants only a +1 damage bonus against
unarmored foes while a result of 1 or less
means 1d10 bullets are ruined. Hollow
point rounds cost 1.5 times more than
normal rounds, but have the same rarity.
• Tracer: These rounds have small flares
in the tail of the bullet which help the
shooter see where it’s going and adjust his
aim based on where he sees the shots fall.
Tracers negate the penalty for automatic
fire, including using suppressive fire. In
addition, the magnesium flare burns very
hot. Targets hit by a tracer may catch
fire (see Savage Worlds), and the damage
counts as fire damage for creatures
affected by such. Tracer ammo costs $1
more per round than standard ammo, and
increases the rarity by a step.
Gyrojet Ammunition: Introduced into
the Last War by British Forces, the gyrojet
is a small, self-contained rocket that causes
little recoil when fired. The propellant in
the slug continues to accelerate it after it
leaves the gun, resulting in a bullet with an
extremely flat trajectory and much greater
effective range than an ordinary pistol round.
The rounds are stabilized in flight by small
fins which pop out after the rocket leaves
the barrel.
The hollow slugs fired by this pistol
deform easily on impact, which makes
them unable to penetrate armor well (half
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damage versus armored targets). These
rounds are fully consumed in their firing
and can’t be reloaded, so this ammunition,
already scarce, gets rarer with each pull of
the trigger.
Caseless Ammunition: Standard issue
to the Combine’s troops, these rounds are
difficult to come by outside of Denver. The
caseless, solid propellant rounds are fired
with an electric charge, leading observers
to dub them “pulse” weapons. They leave
no telltale casing on the ground after a
firefight and thus can’t be reloaded. The
Black Hats hate being fired on with their
own ammunition!
ARMOR
Civilian Executive Protection Armor:
For the VIP who needs low key protection,
this armor looks like thin thermal underwear,
and can be worn under clothing with no
one the wiser. It covers the torso, arms, and
legs, and requires a Notice roll at –4 to spot
unless it’s the only thing worn.
Improvised Armor: Wasters try to put
all sorts of things between themselves and
incoming fire. Improvised armor can be
made of tires, football helmets, stove pipes,
or whatever else is on hand.
Infantry Battlesuit Helmet: Helmets
worn by active duty military units of the
North and South before and during the Last
War were basically identical. The ferocity
of the fighting means these items are
extremely hard to find intact these days.
The helm is full-faced with mirrored
visor, 0.5 mile radio that can run indefinitely
off the body’s bioelectric field, and a full
respirator system. Unfortunately, most of
the respirator filters have been removed
and few of the radios work these days. The
helmet grants +4 Armor against head shots.
If the filters (which are rare) are in place, the
helmet provides sealed protection against
gases and airborne inhaled toxins.
Kevlar Vest: Kevlar offers 2 points of
protection against most attacks. Kevlar
weave “binds” spinning bullets and so
negates up to 4 points of AP from bullets,
and provides +4 protection from them as
well.

COMMON GEAR
Batteries: Some items require batteries.
Small batteries require one hour of
charging, medium batteries two, and large
three—assuming one can find a generator.
Compass: This handy item adds +2 to
Smarts and Survival rolls made to navigate
the Wasted West.
Dr. Pepper: Urban legend from before
the Last War reported that Dr. Pepper
had certain curative properties in regards
to rad poisoning. Thanks to the strange
supernatural energy of the Reckoning,
this became true. A waster who drinks a
can of Dr. Pepper regains all Fatigue lost
to radiation. The soft drink is anathema
to Doomsayers, who must make a Vigor
roll upon tasting the stuff or suffer a level
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of Fatigue that can only be recovered by
basking in radiation. An entire can kills a
Doombringer outright—if one can force it
down his throat.
Gas Mask: A gas mask negates airborne
toxins and gases. The bulky mask, hood,
and limited vision reduces Notice rolls by
–1, however.
Geiger Counter: A Geiger counter
detects the strength of radiation when
activated. They run off medium batteries
that last five hours of continuous use.
Ghost Rock Batteries: Ghost rock
batteries exist for all sizes. These increase
the usage (time or charges) by 50% but cost
double the normal cost for that size battery.
Hatchet: Treat this as a knife when used
as a weapon.
 Laser Sight: Laser sights may be
attached to any ballistic weapon. The user
gains a +1 bonus to Shooting rolls against
targets in Short Range unless using the
automatic fire maneuver. If using an optic
scope in conjunction with the laser sight,
the bonus is good for all Ranges. The sight
uses small batteries that last for roughly
100 shots.
Lockpicks: A waster who tries to pick
a lock without these tools suffers a –2
penalty to his Lockpicking roll.
NBC Environmental Protection Suit:
the Nuclear Biological Chemical ensemble
or environmental protection suit (the
civilian version) is designed to be worn
over clothing and footwear and provides
protection against everything from the
common cold to biological agents to
chemical weapons. Complete protection
also requires that a gas mask be used with
the NBC oversuit, while the civilian version
has a full-face hood built in. The suits give
+2 to Vigor rolls against normal radiation.
If the wearer suffers any wounds, the suit
is compromised and provides no protection.
These outfits are hot and bulky, reducing
Agility-related rolls by –1, and subtracting 2
from Vigor rolls made to resist heat.
Night Vision Goggles: Night vision
goggles enhance any ambient light and
allow the wearer to ignore Dim or Dark
conditions entirely and treat Pitch Darkness
as normal Darkness. It has no effect if
absolutely no light is available at all (such
as the total darkness found in caves).
Also, when wearing the goggles, the user
suffers –1 to Notice rolls due to his reduced
peripheral vision. Night vision goggles
require a small battery that provides about
four hours of use. A bright light shined in
the goggles forces the wearer to make a
Vigor roll or be Shaken.
Pick: Picks make awkward weapons
due to their weight and poor balance, but
they can be used as a medium improvised
weapon in a pinch (see Savage Worlds).
Radio: One of the only remaining ways
to communicate over long distances (and
an iffy one at that), radios come in all
shapes and ranges. The price given is for
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a hands-free set or walkie-talkie capable
of broadcasting for a half mile. For every
multiple of 4 the range is increased (2 miles,
8 miles, 32 miles, up to a maximum of 128
miles), double the cost and the weight of
the radio and increase the scarcity by a
level. Basic radios with an 8 mile or less
range use small batteries lasting for two
hours of total use; larger ones use medium
batteries that last for four hours or can be
connected to a vehicle for continuous use
as long as the engine is operational.
Rope (20 yards): This rope can safely
handle 500 pounds without difficulty. For
every 100 pounds over that, roll a d6 every
minute of use, or whenever the rope suffers
sudden stress. On a 1, the rope snaps.
Scope: Scopes may only be mounted
on rifles. When a shooter uses a scope, he
gains +2 to Shooting rolls against targets at
Medium or Long Range.
Suppressor: Suppressors impose a –1
penalty to Shooting rolls while using the
suppressed weapon. On the plus side,
characters within 5” (10 yards) of the fired
weapon (and not in line of sight) must
make a Notice roll to realize a weapon’s
been fired. Those beyond 5” suffer a –2
to this roll, beyond 10”, a –4. Beyond 20”,
no roll is possible unless the character is
looking at the user. In all cases, if someone
is observing the shooter, the shooter may
make a Stealth roll (opposed by Notice) to
hide the use of the weapon, which incurs
the usual multi-action penalty to the
Shooting roll.
Water Purification Kit: A single dose of
the chemicals in this kit instantly purifies
enough water for a single person for one
day. The water still tastes awful, though.
A fully charged kit has 10 doses. Refills,
which are scarce, typically cost $25
Water Test Kit: A use of this kit and a
successful Smarts roll determines if a body
of water is safe to drink. This uses small
batteries. A single small battery provides
20 tests.
Wood Axe: This axe is intended for
chopping lumber and makes an awkward
weapon, at best. If used in this fashion, it

acts like a large improvised weapon. On the
plus side, it gets AP 2 against targets made
of wood or using wooden armor.
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Although all the countries involved in
the Last War had scientists slaving away
to find better and more efficient ways
to destroy their enemies, they also had
doctors hard at work looking for better
ways to keep their own people alive. This
had the benefit of not only preventing the
loss of veteran troops, but it also boosted
the soldiers’ morale by letting them know
they could expect the best medical care
available in the event they were wounded.
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Medchip: The US Army was the
first force to use these chips, but
others quickly adopted them. A
medchip is a small chip implanted
under the skin that contains a
soldier’s entire medical history and
scans his vital signs. This chip can be
read by a handheld scanner carried
by most medics or a medboard (see
below).
Early chips were implanted in the
upper arm, but it was quickly found
that this could cause a problem if
the patient had lost the limb. Later
chips were implanted at the base
of the skull just below the hairline
(anyone missing the chip in this case
was more than likely beyond any
help a doctor could give). Any hero
who was a soldier before the Last
War may have a working medchip if
they desire (and the Marshal agrees).
A working chip grants a +2 bonus
to all Healing rolls made to treat the
soldier by anyone with a medchip
scanner or medboard. The medchips
of many soldiers who survived the
war no longer work because they
were fried by an EMP on Judgment
Day, so just because someone is an
old soldier doesn’t mean they have
one.
Medchip Scanner: This is a
small, handheld device about the
size of a cell phone. It reads the information
contained on a soldier’s medchip. All
information is displayed on a small screen.
It uses one small battery for two hours of
operation.
Medboard: This is a metal stretcher
with built-in sensors and a number of
video displays. It can read the basic vital
signs of anyone lying on the board. If the
patient also has a medchip, the board can
scan this and provide even more detailed
information. This grants a +2 modifier to
any Healing rolls made to treat patients
without medchips and a +4 modifier when
treating patients with a chip. It uses one
medium battery for one hour of operation
(six 10-minute Healing rolls).
 Medkit: This is the typical medical kit
issued to most field medics. A fully-stocked
bag contains a selection of scalpels, IV
tubing, a manual respirator, 100 yards of
gauze, a stethoscope, inflatable pressure
cuffs, suture needles and thread, and a
variety of basic medications. Healers with
this item ignore the –2 penalty for not
having basic supplies. If the user rolls a 1
on their Healing die, they run out of some
item in the kit and suffer a –1 penalty until
they restock it.
Sprayskin: Sprayskin comes in an
aerosol can. It’s a spray-on medication
that contains a disinfectant, an antibiotic, a
coagulant, and a painkiller. When sprayed
on a wound, it forms a plastic skin over the
affected area. The medications stop anyone
who is Bleeding Out as if they made their
Vigor roll. Sprayskin also grants a +2 bonus
to all Vigor rolls made to resist infection
and perform natural healing. Sprayskin also
negates one level of wound modifiers for
six hours. A full can holds 20 applications.
WEAPONS
Below is a sampling of weapons found
scattered throughout the Wasted West. The
Last War left many such relics.
The initials before certain weapons refer
to the force that used them. NA stands for
Northern Alliance, SA is Southern Alliance,
IW refers to “Infantry Weapon”, and HI is
the abbreviation for Hellstromme Industries.
“M” simply means “military,” and is used by
many nations’ armies.
Boomerang/Sharpened Hubcap: Given
the appropriate materials, these can be
made with a Repair roll.
Grenades: These can be either thrown
or fired from a grenade launcher. Individual
grenades have special functions.
• Beanbag: This ammo was initially
designed for nonlethal crowd control and
police situations. Bean bag rounds are
designed to be fired from any 20mm or
40mm grenade launcher; they cannot be
thrown. When fired, they expand to a flat
“bean bag” which smacks into the target
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with stunning force. Bean bag grenades
only affect a single target, and their
damage is nonlethal. Due to their lack of
aerodynamics, bean bag grenades halve
the range increments for the launcher
used.
• Flare: Fired from a grenade launcher,
this round shoots a flare that bursts
several hundred feet above the ground and
floats down on its own parachute. The
flare provides light in a two mile radius,
reducing lighting penalties by two levels
(Dim and Dark are negated and Pitch
Darkness becomes Dim) for 4+1d4 rounds.
If thrown, the area is greatly reduced,
though still an impressive 100” radius. If
shot or thrown at a target, a flare causes
2d6 damage for each round it burns,
requiring a Strength roll at –4 to remove.
Others can attempt to remove the grenade
but suffer the damage before making the
roll. Targets have the standard chance of
catching fire (see Savage Worlds).
• Flash Bang: These grenades flash with
brilliant light and stun with concussion.
Characters within a Large Burst Template
must make a Vigor roll at –4 or be Shaken.
• Inferno: “Hell ‘nades” burst with little
concussive force but plenty of flame.
Targets have the standard chance of
catching fire (see Fire in Savage Worlds).
• Multiprojectile/Buckshot: This
“grenade” is a giant shotgun shell filled
with steel balls and like the bean bag can
only be fired from a launcher. The shooter
places the small end of the Cone template
adjacent to himself and the large end on
his targets. He then makes a shooting roll.
Any character under or partially under
the template makes an opposed Agility
roll at –2 to dodge out of the way. If the
shooter gets a raise over the target, he
gets bonus damage as usual.
• Riot Control: Strong tear gas pours
forth from this grenade upon detonation.
Anyone within the Medium Burst
Template must make a Vigor roll at –2
(–4 if in an enclosed space). Those who
fail are Shaken and remain Shaken while
in the gas cloud. Once out of the gas, a
 victim suffers a –4 to recover from being
Shaken for three rounds. Characters with
gas masks, creatures that don’t breathe,
or similar abilities are unaffected.
• Smoke: Smoke grenades are primarily
used to provide cover for advancing
troops, or to blind a fixed position such
as a machine gun nest. The Medium Burst
Template remains in play for 2d4 rounds
(4d4 in an enclosed area). All attacks
through the cloud suffer a –2 vision
penalty.
IW-40: This rifle, which equipped British
Army infantry squads, fires a .50 gyrojet
round. Venting the exhaust through a
compensator allows users to ignore the
auto-fire penalty. Unlike the IW-91, the
IW-40 cannot fire normal .50 bullets.
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IW-91: Originally used by British forces
in America, this is a six shot, smooth bore
revolver that fires gyrojet rounds. The
weapon may be fired with ordinary .50
rounds, but its Range is reduced to 6/12/24,
and it does 2d6+2 damage, AP 2 (not halved
vs. armor).
Mini-Chainsaw: With the advances
in battery technology, many power tools
went cordless, and with the Apocalypse,
their use as weapons was unavoidable.
Mini-chainsaws are the most common, but
the same stats can be used any similar
power tool (circular saws, masonry drills,
etc.). Such weapons suffer penalties as
improvised weapons (–1 to Fighting and
Parry), which can be removed with the
Improvisational Fighter Edge (see Savage
Worlds). Mini-chainsaws can normally run
for 2 hours off a large battery but aren’t
designed for combat. If a 1 is rolled on
the Fighting die, the stress drains any
remaining power in the battery.
NA M-42: The sniper rifle of the
Northern Alliance, this state of the art
weapon boasts a laser sight, bipod,
and scope. In addition, the special
electric trigger adds +3 when aiming
rather than +2.
NA M-92 Officer’s Sidearm: This
was the standard sidearm for US
officers. Its integral laser sight grants
+1 to Shooting rolls made against
targets in short Range.
NA XM-21: Originally developed
for use on Faraway by sykers on
extended recon patrols deep in the
wilds of Banshee before being rushed
into service as the primary NA assault
rifle, the idea behind the XM–21 was
to provide a weapon which could
replenish its ammo supply from local
materials when standard rounds were
unavailable. It does so by firing 5.56mm
slugs propelled by one-ounce chunks
of ghost rock good for firing 10 shots
(though only in single shot mode, no
autofire or three round bursts). A small
casting kit in the stock allows creating
additional slugs in the field—usually
from scrap metal.
 Ruger Redhawk: This pistol is
chambered to handle .357 and .38 rounds.
SA XM-40 “Ripper”: The XM–40
assault rifle was designed to be the first
successful .50 caliber assault rifle. The
secret to the weapon is its slower rate
of fire combined with a battery-powered
gyroscopic compensator. The weapon can
be fired without an active compensator, but
single shots suffer a –1 penalty to Shooting
and any other use (double tap, three round
burst, autofire, rapid fire, etc.) suffers an
additional –2 penalty.
The XM-40 uses a small battery good
for 20 shots. The battery is installed in the
magazine, so reloading the weapon replaces
the battery at the same time.
SA M-50: This Southern sniper rifle is
equipped with a laser sight and scope.
DRUGS
Before Judgment Day, a bewildering array
of drugs filled the pharmacies of the world.
From pain killers to combat drugs, if you
had a need, companies like Pentacorp or
Smith & Robards could fulfil it with a pill,
elixir, or salve.
The following list is by no means
exhaustive, but contains those drugs most
likely to interest wasteland survivors. Each
drug is listed with an addiction modifier.
When taking any substance with a modifier,
the user must make a Spirit roll or gain a
level of Fatigue for 24 hours after the drug
wears off. If the brainer rolls snake eyes,
she acquires the Habit (Major) Hindrance for
that particular substance.
Brainburst
Addiction: 0; Cost: $300/dose; Scarcity:
Uncommon
Originally designed as a commercial
pick-me-up, users quickly found high
doses stimulated creative and cognitive
thought. Of course, these high doses led
to even longer mental short circuits, and
the drug was carefully regulated before
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the Apocalypse. Brainburst is the ultimate
synaptic superjuice. The drug can be
ingested (1d6 rounds to kick in) or injected
for immediate results. The user undergoes
a jolting brainstorm of logical and intuitive
thought. One dose of Brainburst raises a
hero’s Smarts die type by 2 for 2d6 minutes,
along with giving all Smarts-based skills a
+2 modifier. Now for the bad news. When
the drug wears off, the survivor’s Smarts
and Smarts-based skill rolls are made at –4
for the next 2d6 hours.
Hot Dog
Addiction: –1; Cost: $50/dose;
Scarcity: Uncommon
Named for their brown color and rounded
cylindrical shape, these diet pills simulate
the consumption of food, making a person
feel fully fed after the ingestion of just one
tablet. One dose allows a character to ignore
all Fatigue penalties due to lack of food for
24 hours. After one week of continual use
the drug’s beneficial effects are neglible for
a week (when the drugs are finally out of
the user’s system).
Iron Man
Addiction: –4; Cost: $150/dose;
Scarcity: Scarce
A combat drug widely used by both
sides in the Last War, Iron Man adds +2 to
the user’s Toughness. The drug lasts 2d10
minutes.
Rad-Gone
Addiction: N/A; Cost: $300/dose;
Scarcity: Scarce
This drug was designed as a chelator,
a chemical that attaches to another and
allows it to be removed. Rad-gone courses
through the body, binding with any
radioactive particles. These particles are
removed from the body at the next visit to
the outhouse.
 A dose of Rad-gone cures a character
of the glows (see page 95) in minutes.
Rage
Doomsayers are affected in strange ways Addiction: –2; Cost: $100/dose;
by Rad-gone. Any user of the Glow who is Scarcity: Scarce
administered a dose of the chelator must
Another combat enhancement popular
make a Vigor check at –4. Failure causes
among military personnel and private
the loss of 2d6 Power Points which can be
security forces, this drug boosts the user’s
recovered normally. Those who critically
strength at the cost of brainpower, turning
fail this roll actually have their meridians
him into a frenzied killing machine.
altered, suffering a loss of 5 Power Points
until the Doomsayer sacrifices an Advance A dose of Rage gives the user the Berserk
to recover them. Edge for 2d10 minutes. Once the drug has
worn off, the user must make a Spirit roll
Vials of Rad-gone are commonly found in
or suffer a loss of one die type in Smarts
the ruins of military bases, nuclear power
for 1d6 hours. Snake eyes on the roll results
plants, or hospitals located near nuclear
in the permanent reduction of Smarts by
facilities.
one die type.

Rad-Protect Slo-Mo
Addiction: N/A; Cost: $300/dose;
Addiction: –3; Cost: $150/dose;
Scarcity: Rare
Scarcity: Uncommon
Another fine chemical from your friends
Any character on Slo-Mo feels like the
at Pentacorp, this drug binds with the
world is moving in slow motion around her.
user’s DNA, protecting it from damage
The user draws an additional Action Card
caused by radiation. Any Vigor rolls caused
(and may take the highest) in combat for
by radiation poisoning are at +2. The effects
1d6 minutes, and her Pace is increased by
of Rad-protect last for six hours before the
2. This stacks with Level Headed, Improved
chemical breaks down and is removed from
Level Headed, and Fleet-Footed.
the body.
Unfortunately, the drug works a little too
Rushed through the approval process
well. Unless a Vigor check is made with a
by Pentacorp execs, not all the kinks were
–2 penalty when the drug is taken, the user
worked out of this drug before the Last War.
gets “the shakes,” causing all Agility-based
A critical failure on any radiation-induced
skills to be made at –2 for 1d6 hours.
Vigor checks while under the influence of
Rad-protect indicates the drug has become
fused to the DNA. This prevents the DNA Super Antibiotics
from dividing normally. The long-term effect
Addiction: N/A; Cost: $150/course;
is the character gains the Ailin’ (Major)
Scarcity: Rare
Hindrance as her body is unable to repair
itself. This effect can be removed with the Heralded by pharmaceutical companies
healing power at –4 or greater healing at and medical experts as “the cure for
no penalty, but each healer only gets one the common cold” in 2050, these super
attempt (one per power if they have both). drugs were expensive and rare, and have
been made even rarer after being out
of production for more than 18 years. A
week-long course of Super Antibiotics
allows a +2 to natural Healing rolls, or +4
to Vigor rolls if used to treat diseases.

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 WEAPONS
Weapon Range Dmg RoF Cost Avail Wgt Shots Min
Str
Bows
Bow 12/24/48 2d6 1 $25 C 3 1 d6
Compound Bow 15/30/60 2d6+1 1 $50 U 7 1 d6
Notes: AP 2
Crossbow 15/30/60 2d6 1 $50 R 10 1 —
Notes: AP 2; Reload 1 (for 2x cost, a levered version removes Reload 1)

Thrown Weapons
Boomerang 4/8/16 Str+d4 1 $15 U 2 1 —
Knife 3/6/12 Str+d4 1 $10 C 1 1 —
Knife, Bowie 3/6/12 Str+d4+1 1 $25 U 2 1 —
Notes: AP 1
Sharpened Hubcap 4/8/16 Str+d6 1 $10 C 3 1 d6
Notes: AP 1
Shuriken 3/6/12 Str+1 1 $10 U 1/2 1 —

Pistols
Colt Peacemaker (.45) 12/24/48 2d6+1 1 50 R 2 6 —
Notes: AP 1
Flintlock Pistol (.60) 5/10/20 2d6+1 1 $25 R 3 1 —
Notes: Reload 2
IW-91 (gyrojet) 24/48/96 2d6+2 1 $300 R 9 6 —
Notes: Half damage vs. armored target
Marlin Target Pistol (.22) 10/20/40 2d6—1 1 $75 C 2 15 —
Police Pistol (.45) 12/24/48 2d6+1 1 $100 U 4 7 —
Notes: AP 2
NA Sidearm (9mm) 12/24/48 2d6 1 $100 U 4 15 —
Notes: AP 1; 3RB; See weapon notes
Ruger Redhawk 12/24/48 2d6+1 1 $125 R 4 6 —
Notes: AP 1, fits .357 or .38
Ruger Thunderhawk (.357) 12/24/48 2d6+2 1 $125 R 5 8 d6
Notes: AP 2
SA Sidearm (.50) 15/30/60 2d8 1 $150 U 8 6 d6
Notes: AP 2
S&W .38 Snub 10/20/40 2d6 1 $50 C 3 6 —
S&W 85 (.44 Mag) 12/24/48 2d6+1 1 $125 U 5 7 —
Notes: AP 1
S&W 683 (.50) 15/30/60 2d8+1 1 $175 U 7 5 d6
Notes: AP 2; Cannot Double Tap

Rifles
Blunderbuss (8G) 10/20/40 1—3d6 1 $50 U 15 1 d6
Notes: Reload 2
Lever-Action (.30) 24/48/96 2d8 1 $100 C 12 15 —
Notes: AP 2
HI Damnation (10mm) 24/48/96 2d8+1 3 $300 U 12 30 d6
Notes: AP 2; 3RB; Caseless ammunition
Hunting Rifle (.30—06) 24/48/96 2d8 1 $150 C 10 9 —
Notes: AP 2

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Weapon Range Dmg RoF Cost Avail Wgt Shots Min
Str
Rifles (continued)
IW-40 (.50 gyrojet) 50/100/200 2d10 3 $450 S 26 20 d6
Notes: 3RB; Half damage vs. armored targets
NA M-42 (.50) 40/80/160 2d10 1 $800 R 11 10 -
Notes: AP 2; Snapfire Penalty
NA XM-21 (5.56mm) 24/48/96 2d8 4 $200 C 14 30 d8
Notes: AP 2; 3RB; See weapon notes
SA M-50 (.50) 40/80/160 2d10 1 $800 R 11 10 —
Notes: AP 2’ Snapfire Penalty
SA XM-40 “Ripper” (.50) 24/48/96 2d10 2 $500 R 16 20 d8
Notes: AP 2; 3RB; See weapon notes
Springfield Musket (.52) 15/30/60 2d8 1 $30 R 11 1 d6
Notes: Reload 2

Shotguns
Scattergun 5/10/20 1–3d6 1–2 $150 C 6 2 —
Notes: +2 to hit; 12-Gauge
Double-Barrel 12/24/48 1–3d6 1–2 $200 C 11 2 —
Notes: +2 to hit; 12-Gauge
Pump or Semi-Auto Shotgun 12/24/48 1–3d6 1 $150 U 8 6 —
Notes: +2 to hit; 12-Gauge
Auto-Shotgun 10/20/40 1–3d6 3 $600 R 15 20 d8
Notes: +2 to hit; 12-Gauge

Submachine Guns
HI Blazer (10mm) 12/24/48 2d6+1 3 $200 U 12 30 d6
Notes: AP 2; 3RB; Caseless ammunition
HI Thunderer (9mm) 12/24/48 2d6 3 $125 R 7 30 —
Notes: AP 2; 3RB; Caseless ammunition
HK MP-20 (10mm) 12/24/48 2d6 3 $150 U 10 20 —
Notes: AP 2; 3RB
NA Commando (5.56mm) 12/24/48 2d6 4 $150 U 11 30 —
Notes: AP 3; 3RB
SA Commando (.50) 12/24/48 2d8 3 $150 U 14 20 d6
Notes: AP 2; 3RB
Tokarev Machine Pistol (9mm) 10/20/40 2d6 3 $150 R 7 15 —
Notes: AP 1; 3RB

Heavy Machine Guns

NA SAW (5.56mm) 30/60/120 2d8 5 $750 S 29 100 d6
Notes: AP 2; 3RB; Snapfire
SA SAW (.50) 50/100/200 2d10 3 $1000 S 37 60 d8
Notes: AP 3; 3RB; Snapfire

Other
Armco Grenade 75/150/300 ** 1 $2000 R 32 12 d6
Launcher (40mm)
NA M-720 (20mm) 50/100/200 ** 1 $2000 U 22 6 —
SA M-230 (40mm) 60/120/240 ** 1 $1250 U 27 1 —
Rocket Launcher (88mm) 30/60/120 4d8+2 1 $1000 VR 10 1 —
Notes: AP 40; LBT; Heavy Weapon; Snapfire; Single use

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 GRENADES
Type Range Damage Cost Avail Wgt Notes
Bean Bag Half 3d6 $50 U 1 Nonlethal; See notes
Buckshot Cone 2d10 $100 U 1 See notes
Flash Bang See below None $150 U 1 LBT; See notes
Frag See below 3d6 $100 U 1 MBT
Inferno See below 3d8 $150 R 1 MBT; See notes
Riot Control see below None $100 C 1 MBT; See notes
Smoke See below None $25 C 1 MBT; See notes
Notes: Hand Range is 5/10/20. The Range for a grenade launcher is based on the specific
type (see page 53).

HAND WEAPONS
Type Damage Wgt Cost Avail Notes
Axe Str+d6 2 $50 C
Axe, Battle Str+d8 10 $75 U
Axe, Great Str+d10 15 $150 R AP 1; Parry –1; 2 hands
Bayonet Str+d4 1 $25 C As spear when on a rifle
Brass Knuckles Str+d4 — $25 C
Club Str+d4 1 $25 C
Knife Str+d4 1 $10 C
Knife, Bowie Str+d4+1 2 $25 C AP 1
Machete Str+d6 4 $75 C
Mini-Chainsaw Str+d6+2 10 $500 U AP 2; 2 hands
Spear Str+d6 5 $25 C Parry +1; Reach 1; 2 hands
Sword Str+d8 8 $100 U

AMMO
Cost Avail
Caliber/Type per Bullet (25 rounds) Wgt
Arrow $.50 C 1/5
.22, .38 $.50 U 3/50
9mm, 10mm, .30, .30-06, .45, 5.56, 7.62 $1 U 5/50
.50 pistol/SMG, shotgun slug, unusual calibers $2 R 8/50
.50 rifle/MG, shotgun shell $5 R 8/50
Caseless and military calibers $10 S 5/50
Spare magazines for most weapons $20 U 1/2

ARMOR
Type Armor Weight Cost Avail Notes
Boiled Leather Shirt +1 3 $100 C Covers torso, arms
Boiled Leather Pants +1 3 $75 C Covers legs
C. E. P. Armor +1 2 $500 R Covers torso, arms, and legs;
–4 to Notice
Cold Weather Gear +1 15 $200 C Covers entire body; +1 to
Fatigue rolls vs cold
Improvised Armor +2 5 $50 C Per location; See notes
Infantry Battle Suit +6 35 $1100 S Covers entire body
Infantry Helmet +4 5 $500 U 50% chance to protect vs
headshot
Kevlar Vest +2/+4 (bullets) 8 $750 R Torso only; negates 4 AP;
See notes
Motorcycle Helmet +2 3 $250 U 50% chance to protect vs
headshot

GEAR LIST
Item Cost Wgt Avail
Clothes
Boots $100 4 U
Cowboy Hat $50 — U
Duster $100 4 R
Jacket $50 2 C
Jacket (Leather) $200 3 U
Jeans $50 — U
Pants (Handmade) $10 — C
Shoes $25 — C
Shirt $25 — U
Shirt (handmade) $10 — C
Sneakers $100 — R
Food & Drink
Canned Goods $5 1 U
Dr. Pepper (12 oz.) $100 ¾ S
Coffee (pound) $20 1 R
Fresh fruit (Piece) $5 ½ U
Jerky (1 Meal) $1 1/16 C
Loaf of Bread $10 1 U
Milrats (1 Day) $20 2 U
Soda $50 ¾ R
(12 oz. Can, not Dr. Pepper) Kit (10 Doses)
Veggies $55 ½ U
(1 Serving, Fresh)
Whiskey $100+ 4 R
(Bottle, Pre-War)
Whiskey $10 4 C
(Bottle, Moonshine)
General Equipment
Backpack $30 3 U
Battery, Ghost Rock x2 By Size R
Battery, Large $100 3 U
Battery, Medium $50 1 U
Battery, Small $20 ½ C
Bed roll $15 10 C
Binoculars $100 3 R
Canteen $10 5 (full) C
Cigar (Pre-War) $25 — S
Compass $100 R U
Drill $10 2 U
File $2 1 C
Flashlight $50 4 U
Gas mask $30 2 U
Geiger Counter $100 8 R
Ghost Rock (ounce) $15 1/16 U
Guitar $100 6 U
Hammer $5 2 C
Handcuffs $20 1 U
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Item Cost Wgt Avail
General Equipment (Continued)
Harmonica $5 — C
Hatchet $10 2.5 U
Iron skillet $5 5 C
Lockpicks $50 1 R
Matches (100) $5 ¼ C
Mess kit $15 3 C
NBC Suit $100 20 S
Night Vision Goggles $1,000 3
Pick $10 12 U
Pipe $10 ¾ C
Playing cards $5 — C
Radio $40 1 C
Rope (per 50’) $25 8 C
Shovel $10 5 C
Spook Juice (per gal.) $20 6 C
Sunglasses $10 - U
Tent (2 Person) $100 4 U
Tobacco, chewing $10 1 U
(tin or pouch)
Toothpaste $10 ½ U
Watch, Wrist (Analog) $30 — U
Watch, Wrist (Digital) $15 — R
Watch, pocket $30 — R
Water Purification $100 1 R
Water Test Kit $100 3 R
Wood Axe $50 5 U
Gun Accessories
Bandolier $10 1 U
Holster $30 1 C
Laser Sight $150 ½ R
Scope $200 ½ R
Suppressor (Pistol) $100 1 R
Suppressor (SMG) $150 4 R
Medical Equipment
Medchip Free — Notes
Medchip Scanner $50 1 S
Medboard $250 7 S
Medkit $100 4 S
Medkit Restock $25 — S
Sprayskin $200 ½ U
Drugs
Brainburst $300 — U
Hot Dog $50 — U
Ironman $150 — S
Rad-Gone $300 — S
Rad-Protect $300 — R
Rage $100 — S
Slo-Mo $150 — U
Super Antibiotic $150 — R

VEHICLES
Here’s a rundown of the more common
vehicles in the Wasted West. Before we get
into the nitty gritty of statistics, let’s talk
about fuel. Pretty much every vehicle in
the Wasted West runs on spook juice. As
a rule, they can generally travel about 20
miles on a gallon of go juice. That may
seem low, but keep in mind it’s tough to
maintain a fuel-efficient speed on the
wrecked highways. Some vehicles may
get better or worse mileage (see the notes
below) but typically, they are all designed to
travel about 300 miles on a full tank. That
means most tanks hold about 15 gallons,
but a vehicle with Fuel Hog would hold 30
gallons and one with Light Weight would
hold 10.
Vehicle Notes
• Anti-infantry Charges: Designed
to protect the vehicles against enemy
infantry, these charges are mounted on
the outside armor. When triggered by a
crewmember, this charge bounds into the
air and explodes. Center a Large Burst
Template over the vehicle. Anyone caught
under it takes 2d8 damage.
• Air Defense Radar: This radar and
targeting system is designed to track and
engage high speed aircraft. It halves the
movement penalty when firing against
aircraft (see Savage Worlds vehicle rules).
• Fuel Efficient: These vehicles sip
spook juice, and give 50 miles per gallon.
• Fuel Guzzler: These vehicles go
through fuel like their gas tank is leaking,
and barely make 5 miles per gallon.
• Fuel Hog: Fuel hogs guzzle spook juice,
and make about 10 miles per gallon.
• Fusion Powered: The vehicle has a
fusion-powered engine and essentially
never needs fuel.
• Hover: Hover vehicles use huge fans to
inflate a tough skirt of ballistic material
and create a cushion of air that moves the
vehicle. Hover vehicles negate penalties
for rough terrain and water with one
limitation—hills. The vehicle must remain
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within 15% of horizontal to function.
Passing over hills is next to impossible
and requires two raises on a Driving roll.
Hovertank drivers have taken to skimming
the side of hills—a tactic to which their
enemy is becoming accustomed. With a
raise on a Driving roll, the skirt can be
overpressurized, allowing the vehicle to
clear an obstacle up to ten feet in height.
Snake eyes on this roll damages the skirt,
reducing the Top Speed of the vehicle by
half until Repaired.
• Laser Weapons: Laser weapons can’t
fire if the vehicle’s powerplant is turned
off or disabled.
• Light Weight: These vehicles give you
a lot of bang for your spook juice buck,
and travel 30 miles per gallon.
• Sealed: This AFV is fully sealed against
nuclear, biological, and chemical agents.
Vehicle Fatigue
All the rough roads in the Wasted West
are tough on any vehicle, and scheduled
maintenance is pretty much impossible. For
each day traveling by car, the driver must
make a Driving roll or the vehicle suffers a
level of Fatigue.
Fatigue has the same effect on vehicles it
does on people. Recovery requires a Repair
roll and one hour of work per Fatigue level.
On a success, the vehicle recovers one
Fatigue level, two with a raise.
If a Repair roll is failed the Fatigue can
only be recovered with 1d6 x $100 worth
of spare parts per Fatigue level (no roll
required).
FIGHTING VEHICLES
Below is a rundown of the more common
military vehicles in the Wasted West. The
huge armored battles across the Great
Plains destroyed many of each country’s
inventories of front line vehicles, causing
each to throw obsolete models into the fray.
The US Army was the most highly
mechanized force in the world and
possessed more fusion-powered fighting
vehicles than any other army. The fusion-
hover AFV had only become widespread in
 CIVILIAN VEHICLES
Vehicle Acc/TS Toughness Crew Cost Avail
Horse & Carriage Animal’s Pace 10 (2) 1+3 $1–3K U
Notes: See horse in the Bestiary
Four-Wheel All Terrain Vehicle 10/30 10 (2) 1+1 $1500 U
Notes: Light Weight; 4WD
Motorcycle 20/36 8 (2) 1+1 $3000 U
Notes: Street bike; Fuel Efficient
Dirt Bike 15/32 8 (2) 1 $2000 U
Notes: +4 Toughness vs. jumps; Light Weight; 4WD
Hover Bike 25/55 8 (2) 1+1 $8000 S
Notes: Fuel Efficient, Hover
Compact Car 10/36 10 (3) 1+3 $5–14K S
Notes: Light Weight
Mid-Sized Car 20/40 11 (3) 1+4 $20–60K R
Notes: Air bags; luxury features
Van, Passenger 20/40 12 (3) 1+10 $5000 S
Notes: Fuel Hog
Jeep 12/36 12 (2) 1+3 $12K U
Notes: 4WD
Pickup; Small 12/36 11 (1) 1+2 $3000 R
SUV 20/40 14 (3) 1+7 $20–60K R
Notes: Luxury features; 4WD; Fuel Hog
Sports Car 30/56 10 (3) 1+3 $15–300K VR
Semi 5/30 16 (4) 1+1 $150–300K VR
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 SPOOK JUICE
For a while, most industrial
nations relied on gasoline for fuel,
but when the 1973 Oil Crisis rolled
around, the United States decided
to rely more heavily on domestic
fuel sources. It was pretty obvious
North America lacked the easily
accessible oil resources of the
Middle East, so the US instead
turned to ghost rock.
A few big brains managed to
invent a process through which
ghost rock could be melted without
catching fire, and then figured out
how to distill the good parts out as
fuel. At the time, drivers needed to
purchase a fuel converter for their
vehicles to run on spook juice, but
it didn’t take long for Detroit to fall
in step and start manufacturing
cars that ran exclusively on
the stuff. At first, spook juice
multiplied noise pollution many
times, but engineers pretty quickly
figured out how to modify mufflers
to stifle the screaming.
Technological espionage being
what it was between the two
nations, CSA spies quickly stole
the process for refining spook
juice. It wasn’t long before first
world nations the world over were
refining spook juice and driving
spook juice powered cars.
By the way, if you’re stupid
enough, you can drink spook juice.
It’s got twice the kick of any other
hooch, but sometimes the kick is
deadly. A pint of the stuff causes a
level of Fatigue that takes 6 hours
to recover. Unless you are a Toxic
Shaman (page 90), draw a card for
each pint consumed. If you pull a
Joker, you die, amigo.
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the 2060s, so much of the US and CSA’s
arsenals were still conventional wheeled
and tracked vehicles.
The second-line models used by the
National Guard and Confederate State
Militias were almost all of conventional
designs powered by gas or diesel engines.
Many surviving fusion vehicles now exist
as power plants for survivor settlements.
HMMWV
These rugged vehicles were used by NA
and SA military units all over the West
before Judgment Day. They were pretty
popular among survivors right after the
bombs fell, but their poor fuel efficiency
means they don’t see much use these days.
Acc/Top Speed: 12/36; Toughness: 18
(6); Crew: 1+7; Cost: $10,000; Availability: R;
Notes: Four Wheel Drive; Fuel Hog, Weapon
Mount (swivel-roof)
M-26 Powell
The main hovertank of regular Army
divisions for the US Army, the Powell
was designed mainly for combat across
the open plains of the Americas. This
fusion vehicle provides nearly unlimited
amounts of power, and has power ports
on its upper deck that allow any infantry
riding there to hook in and recharge or
even fire their energy weapons off of the
vehicle’s powerplant. It also has a large
power coupling on its stern that allows a
heavy-duty cable to be run to a disabled
tank. Both vehicles can run at half speed
from a single tank’s reactor. The Powell is
highly prized by survivor settlements for its
preexisting power couplings; a community
can have lights in a matter of minutes by
hooking into a Powell.
The main gun can fire either anti-infantry
rounds (AI) against a variety of targets,
or depleted uranium (DU) rounds against
armored vehicles. The cannon has separate
feeds for both types of ammunition, and
can freely switch from one to the other.
One laser can be set to automatic and fired
by the tank’s air defense radar computer
with a Shooting skill of d8.
Acc/Top Speed: 10/40; Toughness:
140/90/70 (120/70/50); Crew: 3; Cost:
$1,000,000; Availability: R; Notes: Air
Defense, Fusion Powered, Hover, Heavy
Armor, Improved Stabilizer, Night Vision,
Radar, Sealed
Weapons: 125mm cannon, 10mm lasers
(x3)
M-24 Schwarzkopf
An older main battle tank that was
relegated to National Guard units by the
time of the Last War, the Schwarzkopf was
the last of the tracked internal combustion
AFVs in the US inventory. Its excellent main
gun, developed in conjunction with the
German firm Rheinmetall, was retained for
the M-26 Powell.
Acc/Top Speed: 8/24; Toughness:
100/70/40 (80/50/30); Crew: 3; Cost:
$1,000,000; Availability: R; Notes: Fuel Hog,
Heavy Armor, Improved Stabilizer, Night
Vision, Sealed, Sloped Armor (–2)
Weapons: 125mm cannon, NA SAW (x2)
M-124 Liberator IFV
Designed to carry the standard US 10-man
infantry squad, the Liberator was intended
to get the squad to their objective, then
support them with fire from the vehicle’s
weapons. It is equipped with a turret
mounting a 15mm anti-vehicle laser and
an M-95 missile launcher. The Liberator
also has weapon ports along all sides but
the front (4 per side, two in the rear ramp)
allowing the squad to fight while within
the vehicle. The missile launcher must
be reloaded by an exposed crewman, and
takes 2 rounds per missile.
Acc/Top Speed: 12/48; Toughness:
25/20/20 (15/10/10); Crew: 3+10; Cost:
$450,000; Availability: R; Notes: Fusion
Powered, Hover, Heavy Armor, Improved
Stabilizer, Night Vision, Sealed
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Weapons: 15mm AT laser, M-95 missile
launcher, NA SAW
M-38 Sky Sweep Air Defense Vehicle
Taking advantage of the US’s lead in the
field of laser weaponry, the Sky Sweep was
equipped with a high-performance radar
system for detection of incoming aircraft
and a high-speed turret mounting a 15mm
beam laser. This laser differed from the usual
laser in the US inventory in that it fired
not a pulse of light, but a beam that could
track onto the aircraft it was attacking.
Gunners firing the AA laser count as if
they Aimed the first round after they fire
the laser at a target (+2 to Shooting). They
lose the bonus if they ever stop firing at
the target. The laser is temperamental and
prone to overheating, though. If the gunner
rolls a 1 on his Shooting die (regardless of
the Wild Die), the laser shuts down for 1d6
rounds. For this reason, the Sky Sweeps
were usually deployed in teams of two
during the Last War.
Acc/Top Speed: 12/48; Toughness:
30/20/20 (20/10/10); Crew: 3; Cost: $750,000;
Availability: VR; Notes: Air Defense,
Radar, Fusion Powered, Heavy Armor, Hover,
Improved Stabilizer, Night Vision
Weapons: 15mm AA laser, 10mm laser
(x2)
T-12 Lee Main Battle Tank
Designed by the venerable Tredegar Iron
Works, the Lee was the South’s answer to
the hi-tech composite armor of the Powell.
Tredegar engineers designed an ingenious
dual projectile system to crack open the
Powell’s armor. The leading projectile is
a baseball bat-sized, depleted uranium
slug, followed a few milliseconds behind
by the main explosive round. The slug
carried enough force to crack the sheets
of composite armor, allowing the second
explosive round to penetrate the hull and
achieve a kill. The nature of the round allowed
it to work equally well for anti-personnel
usage. The gunnery computer and sights
on the main gun allow the gunner to ignore
any penalties for movement of the target or
light/smoke/fog, but not for movement of
the Lee itself.
Acc/Top Speed: 8/32; Toughness:
105/75/55 (80/50/30); Crew: 3; Cost:
$1,100,000; Availability: VR; Notes: Fusion
Powered, Hover, Heavy Armor, Improved
Stabilizer, Night Vision, Sealed
Weapons: 140mm cannon, 10mm laser,
SA SAW (x3)
M-12 Stuart APC
ammunition and power to function. This
vehicle was found to be an excellent weapon
in the ground support role, and surviving
Yorks are found almost exclusively in this
mode.
Acc/Top Speed: 10/30; Toughness:
45/30/30 (30/15/15); Crew: 3; Cost: $500,000;
Availability: VR; Notes: Air Defense,
Radar, Fusion Powered, Heavy Armor, Hover,
Improved Stabilizer, Night Vision
Weapons: 8mm railgun, SA SAW, 10mm
laser (x2)

The Stuart APC (armored personnel

carrier) epitomized the Confederacy’s PIMP MY RIDE!
military doctrine of overwhelming the
enemy with firepower to make up for
Okay, brainer, now that you’ve got
their smaller numbers of troops. While not
wheels, it’s time to shine ‘em up real
heavily armored, the Stuart was expected
nice. Well, nothing really shines anymore,
to provide a substantial amount of support
but you get the idea. Here are a bunch
to its dismounted infantry squad with its
of modifications you can make to your
variety of weaponry. The XL-99 pulse laser
vehicle. Each modification has a listed cost
requires one round to recharge between
and availability (which works the same as
shots. The M-240GL is an automatic
vehicle availability).
grenade launcher mounted in tandem with
the XL-99 (so it can be fired while the other Each modification also lists a Repair roll
recharges), and can be loaded with three modifier, which is the roll required to install
different types of linked grenades, which the modification. Your wrench-monkey can
can be selected with a thumb switch on do this work himself or he can pay double
the gunner’s controls. the cost and increase the availability rating
by one step—if he has a mechanic to do
Acc/Top Speed: 10/30; Toughness:
it for him. If the character fails his own
40/35/20 (25/20/5); Crew: 3+8; Cost:
attempt, he’ll need to find someone to show
$750,000; Availability: VR; Notes: Fusion
him how it’s done. He may also try again if
Powered, Heavy Armor, Hover, Improved
he later increases his skill level.
Stabilizer, Night Vision, Sloped Armor (–3)
Weapons:
Flamer
XL-99, M-240GL, SA SAW,
Air Dam
Cost: $200; Availability: U; Repair Roll:
A-4 York Air Defense Vehicle –2 (2 hours)
An air dam is a funnel-shaped accessory
Named after the famous Southern hero of
installed beneath a vehicle. Its shape
the First World War, the York was designed
accelerates the air passing beneath the
to provide close, battlefield, anti-air defense
vehicle, lowering air pressure, and causing
of the Confederacy’s forward elements. Its
the vehicle to ride lower to the ground. This
rail gun fires clusters of metal flechettes
gives vehicles extra stability, adding +1 to
in one burst to take down aircraft instead
Driving rolls at speeds of 20 and higher. Air
of rapid firing multiple shots. The designer
dams may not be installed on two-wheeled
was noted as saying, “You hunt birds with a
vehicles.
shotgun not an assault rifle.” The rail gun’s
main limitation was that it required both

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Combat Shocks
Cost: $200/wheel; Availability: R;
Repair Roll: –2 (4 hours)
Combat shocks are designed to stabilize
moving vehicles, allowing passengers
to fire weapons with better accuracy.
The vehicle’s axles are cut in half and
reconnected through a joint, which allows
the individual wheels to compensate more
easily for uneven terrain. While this doesn’t
do much for the chassis—the underside
of the vehicle still gets beaten up during
off-road driving—it reduces the unstable
platform penalty by one when passengers
fire weapons from a moving vehicle.
Extra Armor
Cost: $500 per point of Armor;
Availability: C; Repair Roll: 0 (1 hour/
point of armor)
If you thought road rage was bad before
the Last War, wait ‘til you try to pass a road
ganger on the right! For these occasions,
smart wasters have begun bolting additional
armor to their rides.
This modification could be anything from
scrap metal to sandbags in the door panels.
A vehicle can only add as many points of
extra Armor as it has Armor to begin with,
so an HMMWV could add a maximum of 6
points of armor, while an SUV is limited to
3. Either way, the vehicle’s handling suffers
under all that extra weight. Driving rolls are
reduced by half the armor added (round up).
Fighting Position
Cost: $100/person; Availability: C;
Repair Roll: 0 (2 hours + 1 hour per person
accommodated)
This accessory is basically a sandbagged
bunker on the roof of a vehicle. It can
only be applied to the largest of vehicles,
like buses, campers, or semi trailers. A
single fighting position can hold up to
three people, or two people if the position
includes a Weapon Mount. A vehicle can fit
one fighting position for every 10 people it
can fit inside the vehicle itself.
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Fighting Positions give those inside
Medium Cover, and also grant a +2 bonus
to any rolls made to retain footing atop a
moving vehicle.
Heavy Duty Shocks
Cost: $50/wheel; Availability: U; Repair
Roll: 0 (2 hours)
Heavy duty shocks decrease the risk
of damage while driving off-road. This
modification gives a vehicle the Four Wheel
Drive (4WD) ability. Additionally, the vehicle
gains a +1 bonus to avoid Vehicle Fatigue;
this bonus can be gained by adding the
shocks even if the vehicle already has the
4WD ability.
Hooch Converter
Cost: $1,000; Availability: R; Repair
Roll: –4 (4 hours)
Since Judgment Day, you can’t just roll
up to a gas station and top off your tank.
Spook juice is often hard to come by in the
Wasted West, and resourceful road warriors
have found alternate sources of fuel.
A Hooch Converter enables your vehicle
to run on either alcohol or spook juice.
When fueled up with alcohol (regardless of
quality), it gets only half the usual mileage.
This is rough on the engine, so Vehicle
Fatigue rolls suffer a –2 penalty when
running on booze (see page 56).
Nitrous Oxide
Cost: $600; Availability: U; Repair Roll:
–2 (1 hour)
This system injects highly flammable gas
from canisters right into the engine. A driver
may activate it at the beginning of an action
for free, doubling his vehicle’s Acceleration
and Top Speed for the round. A canister
contains enough nitrous for six rounds, and
refills go for $200 (Scarce Availability: there
are more systems lying around than unused
canisters).
Ram Plate
Cost: $250; Availability: C; Repair Roll:
0 (1 hour)
A ram plate is a heavy piece of metal
wielded to a vehicle’s front end. Often, these
nasty pieces of work include heavy spikes,
or are sharply angled at the center, creating
a wedge. When this vehicle rams another,
it suffers 1d6 less damage than normal and
the target suffers 1d6 more.
Sidecar
Cost: $1000; Availability: U; Repair
Roll: –2 (2 hours)
A sidecar increases a motorcycle’s
pas­senger rating by 1 but inflicts a –1 penalty
to Driving rolls. For extra mayhem, sidecars
can also carry one additional Weapon
Mount. Sidecars can only be mounted on
motor­cycles.
Spoiler
Cost: $200; Availability: U; Repair Roll:
0 (1 hours)
Spoilers deflect air passing over a vehicle,
pushing it down and improving traction.
This adds +1 to the driver’s Driving roll at
speeds of 20 and higher. Spoilers can’t be
fitted to motorcycles.
Supercharger
Cost: $800; Availability: R; Repair Roll:
–2 (2d4 hours)
A supercharger improves an engine’s
performance by forcing additional air into
the pistons. This provides more oxygen for
combustion inside the engine, increasing
its power output.
Your vehicle’s Acc/Top Speed is increased
by +2/+4, and it gets five more miles per
gallon of spook juice.
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Weapon Mount
Cost: Fixed: $250 + weapon; Swivel: $750
+ weapon; Availability: C/U; Repair Roll:
0/–2
Weapon mounts help your wasteland
warrior do unto others before they can do
unto him. These vital accessories come
in two varieties: fixed mounts and swivel
mounts. The statistics above indicate fixed
mount information to the left of the slash,
with the swivel mount information to the
right.
A fixed mount, as the name implies, is
in a fixed position relative to the vehicle.
Usually this is forward, but more than one
lucky waster has escaped a road gang by
virtue of a SAW stuffed in his trunk. In
any event, this weapon can only fire in the
direction it is mounted, but since the fire
controls are usually wired to the driver’s
steering wheel, he can fire it once each
round without incurring a multi-action
penalty. To make an attack, the driver rolls
the lower of his Driving or Shooting skills.
Swivel mounts can be as crude as a hole
hacked in a car roof or as sophisticated
as a motorized turret, but always require
a passenger to serve as gunner. This style
of mount allows a weapon to be fired in
any direction. Don’t forget that unstable
platform penalty, though.
Vehicles can only carry as many weapon
mounts as their base Toughness divided by
4, rounded down.
 VEHICULAR WEAPONS
Weapon Range Damage RoF Cost Avail
8mm Rail Gun 200/400/800 3d10 1 $8,000 R
Notes: AP 4, Heavy Weapon, Small Burst Template, 40 shots
10mm Laser 100/200/400 3d6 3 $12,000 R
Notes: AP 8, Heavy Weapon, unlimited shots with fusion reactor
15mm AT Laser 150/300/600 4d8 3 $20,000 R
Notes: AP 40, Heavy Weapon, unlimited shots with fusion reactor
15mm AA Beam Laser 120/240/480 3d8+2 1 $25,000 VR
Notes: AP 16, Heavy Weapon, unlimited shots with fusion reactor,
see M-38 Sky Sweep Air Defense Vehicle notes
125mm (AI Rounds) 120/240/480 3d8+2 1 $10,000 VR
Notes: AP 80, Heavy Weapon, Medium Burst Template, 5 shots
125mm (DU Rounds) 120/240/480 5d8 1 $10,000 VR
Notes: AP 120, Heavy Weapon, 5 shots
140mm 100/200/400 5d10 1 $12,000 VR
Notes: Halves most armor, AP 60, Heavy Weapon, Medium Burst Template,
see T-12 Lee Main Battle Tank notes
Flamer Cone 3d10 1 $1,500 S
Notes: Ignores armor except sealed, unlimited shots with fusion reactor
M-95 Missile Launcher 100/200/400 4d10 1 $5,000 VR
Notes: AP 65, Heavy Weapon, Medium Burst Template, 2 shots
M-240GL 100/200/400 By grenade 2 $3,000 R
Notes: Firest 40mm grenades, 30 shots (3 hoppers of 10 each)
XL-99 100/200/400 5d10 1/2 $7,000 R
Notes: AP 30, Heavy Weapon, Small Burst Template, unlimited shots with fusion reactor

Ammunition: Unless otherwise specified (such as the cost for grenades), ammunition for
each weapon costs 10% of the weapon’s cost for a full load of ammunition. For example, 40
shots for the 8mm rail gun cost $800.

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 SETTING RULES
On the following pages are Setting Rules
that alter the core Savage Worlds rules or
add something new to them based on the
harsh environment of the Wasted West.
The Marshal has a few more in his
section, but you players should mind your
business and stay out of there.
COUNTING COUP
The wastelands have a whole lot of
nasties lurking around—Hell, your hombre
might even be one of them! Most of
these creatures have at least a spark of
supernatural energy in them, and the most
powerful have a whole lot. A hero who’s
been around a while might discover how to
absorb the essences of the more powerful
creatures when they expire.
This is called “counting coup” and results
in your character gaining some strange new
ability. Before the Apocalypse, only Harrowed
could count coup, but now anyone near the
fiend as its essence “bleeds” off can do so.
The Marshal has full details on how this is
done on page 93. Just make sure your waster
isn’t too far away when a really wicked
beast goes down. He might just walk away
from the event with a little extra juice he
can use when he runs into the next horror.
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DEATH
The dead don’t always stay that way in
Deadlands. If your character goes on to that
big paradise in the sky, draw one card for
each of his Ranks from a fresh Action Deck.
If he has the Guts Edge, add one draw, and
if he has the Grit Edge, add another.
If any of your cards are a Joker, your
hero is coming back as a Harrowed. See the
No Man’s Land chapter (page 69) for more
information—but only after your waster
kicks the bucket.
GHOST STORMS
When the bombs hit, each one left behind
a whirling mess of screaming souls, called
a “ghost storm.”
These fearsome tornadoes circle ground
zero in a five mile radius. The “walls” tend
to be about ten feet thick. They aren’t quite
as physically violent as a real whirlwind,
but they’re more dangerous to one’s soul.
Unfortunately for the scavengers of the
Wasted West, every city that got hit by
ghost rock bombs has one of these whirling
hellstorms surrounding it. If a traveler
wants inside, he has to pass through the
ghost storm.
Doing so requires a Vigor roll at –4.
Failure gives the waster a level of Fatigue
that fades after one hour. If the victim rolls

FATE CHIPS & FEAR
These rules aren’t the same
in the Wasted West because it’s
a different place. Fate Chips are
replaced by Bennies straight
from Savage Worlds. This makes
things a little smoother for the
type of play more common in
Hell on Earth than Deadlands.
Fear Levels are still used but
instead of characters using the
Guts skill, they make regular
Fear checks (also described in
Savage Worlds). Two new Edges
replace the Grit system from
Deadlands, named appropriately
Guts and Grit. Both of these
reduce the penalties Fear Levels
usually inflict on these tests.
These rules weren’t transferred
to the Wasted West because it’s a
scarier era. Things changed after
the Reckoning. Life is a little
harsher for the average waster
and most have learned to live
with it a little better than those
first experiencing the horrors of
the Reckoners over two centuries
past.
a 1 on his trait die, he immediately gains
a mutation and suffers 2d6 damage as he
sprouts a third eye, a few extra fingers, or
worse. Only magical armor protects against
this damage. Snake eyes on the roll results
in 3d6 damage and two mutations. Have fun
with that. The Mutation Table can be found
on page 95.
SCAVENGING
Scavenging is the ability to find saleable
bits or life’s necessities in the ruins of
civilization.
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When the Marshal decides a location
might have scavengable materials, each
member of the party who chooses to search
may make Notice rolls. With a success, the
waster finds $2d6 worth of saleable bits
he can use as cash the next time he finds
a trader. These bits are unnamed odds and
ends good for nothing other than currency.
In additon, if the searcher gets a raise, he
may also draw a single card from a fresh
Action Deck. The Marshal has the scoop on
what the scavenger finds on page 102.
Naturally, most of the really good caches
of loot have already been picked over in
the 16 years since Judgment Day. The
scroungers’ Notice rolls are modified by
the size of the find and whether or not it’s
already been picked over, as decided by the
Marshal and using the Scavenging Table
below as a guide.
SCAVENGING MODIFIERS
Modifier Time Location
–4 1d6 rounds Corpse
–2 1d6 min Civilian car, group of
corpses
–1 3d6 min Military vehicle,
traffic pileup in a
small town (a dozen
cars or so)
0 1d6 hours Home or small office,
former battlefield,
jetliner, traffic pileup
in a large city (50+
cars)
+1 2d6 hours Large office (up to
100 people)
+2 3d6 hours Office building,
department store,
cruise ship
+4 1d6 days Laboratory
Modifier Condition
–4 Likely to have been picked
over already
–2 Unlikely to have been picked
over already
0 Untouched
+2 Organized cache (such as a
survival shelter)
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The Wasted West is a place of terror and violence, but it
is also a place of power for those who know its secrets.
On the following pages are rules for playing those who
have figured out some of this Hell on Earth.

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 NO MAN’S LAND
DOOMSAYERS HISTORY
The Cult of Doom is a mutant-led
group of individuals who believe “normal”
Edge: Arcane Background (Doomsayer)
humanity is doomed, and that mutants are
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Faith
the next branch of the evolutionary tree.
d4+, Spirit d8+
Arcane Skill: Faith (Spirit) Some priests of the Cult believe “norms”
Power Points: 10 should be wiped out to make way for
Starting Powers: 2 plus environmental mutant-kind. Silas Rasmussen and his
protection green-robed priests—Doomsayers and the
Backlash: Should a Doomsayer roll a 1 on more powerful Doombringers—are intent
her Faith roll, she is Shaken. On a critical on making humanity’s exit as bloody as
failure, she gains a random mutation and possible.
does not get her extra card draw (see below).
One Doomsayer, a woman named Joan,
Available Powers: Armor, barrier, blast,
rebelled against the “Mutant King” and
blind, bolt, boost/lower trait, burst, con­
splintered from the cult. She and her
fusion, damage field, darksight, deflection,
“heretics” donned purple Doomsayer robes
detect/conceal arcana, drain power points,
and are attempting to bring about a peaceful
elemental manipu­ lation, EMP, entangle,
transition to the masses. Joan has genuine
environmental protection, farsight, fear,
compassion for her non-mutated brothers
havoc, healing, intangibility, light/obscure,
and sisters, but is also smart enough to
mutate, slow, summon ally.
realize humanity is very well-armed and
Special Rules:
fearful of their impending doom. Those
• Any Sufficiently Advanced Science:
circumstances often lead people to do
Doomsayers may not use Edges that
terrible things that will certainly cause
require Arcane Background (Miracles),
more pain and suffering, and could even
but they can take the Wizard Edge,
result in the extinction of mutants—or even
substituting their Faith for the Spellcasting
all life.
requirement (see Savage Worlds).
Joan wants to foster good relations
• Mutations: Doomsayers begin the
between the “Chosen” and the “Doomed,“
game with one random mutation (see
and the heretics’ purple robes are the key.
page 95). Whenever a Doomsayer draws
If enough purple-robed Doomsayers do
a mutation in play, she picks an extra
enough good, she hopes norms will begin
card and takes the best result.
to see mutants in a better light. She doesn’t
• Recharge: A Doomsayer who steps expect the Doomed to suddenly come
through a ghost storm (page 65) regains around and believe all mutants are good,
1d6 Power Points or 2d6 if they get a raise because that’s certainly not the case. In
on the Vigor roll.

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fact, mutants are more likely than humans
to be a bit off kilter, or even downright
crazy. Joan chalks this up to the Glow’s
failed experiments. She does, however, hope
that the good works of her followers will
eventually convince the Doomed to give the
Chosen a fair shake.
As such, Joan’s followers prove themselves
by doing good deeds for mutants and
norms alike. They protect villages, cure
rad sickness, heal the wounded, and—most
important—lead resistance against mutant
attacks. Yep, you read that right. The
Chosen might be humanity’s next branch
on the evolutionary tree, but they haven’t
been “Chosen” to kill, ravage, pillage, and
plunder. Doomsayers are the first to wade
into a den of these deviant mutants and
start blasting (reasonable mutants allied
with Silas are given the chance to convert
to a more peaceable way of life before
they’re nuked).
Silas’ followers greatly outnumber Joan’s,
and their mutations cause many to be a bit
unstable to boot. To make matters worse, a
lot of norms don’t understand the schism
and think all Doomsayers are out to kill
them. This makes life pretty difficult for
these desert do-gooders.
Heretical Doomsayers are ordained by
Joan or a select few of her original heretics
and given a purple robe emblazoned
with the symbol of the Cult of Doom: a
combination of the Greek letters Alpha and
Omega, superimposed over the flames of
the Apocalypse. The symbol looks to many
like that of a three-legged mutant.
DOOMSAYER EDGES
Oppenheimer’s Chosen (Weird Edge)
Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
Background (Doomsayer), Vigor d8+, Faith
d8+
This priest of the Glow is blessed by
one of the Nine Great Saints of the Cult
of Doom. Unfortunately, the reactor that
burns brightest also runs the greatest risk
of melting down.
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All of the Doomsayer’s damage-causing
powers, such as bolt, are increased a die
type (so 2d6 becomes 2d8). However, should
he suffer backlash on any power, he is
Shaken and suffers 3d6 damage. If this kills
the Doomsayer, the last miracle goes off as
if it were successful with a raise. He then
explodes in a burst of radioactive energy
that causes 4d10 damage to everything in
a Large Burst Template centered on the
priest. Those who suffer a wound or more
gain a mutation as well!
DOOMSAYER POWERS
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
Rank: Novice
Power Points: 2–10
Range: Spirit
Duration: 3 (2/round)
An electromagnetic pulse fries
non-shielded circuits and electronics. It’s
a great way for a Doomsayer to level the
playing field when faced with high-tech
weapons and vehicles.
To use EMP the Doomie places a Medium
Burst Template anywhere within range and
then makes a Faith roll. The difficulty of
affecting a target depends on any shielding
it might have, as shown below. Affected
electronics are fried and generally must be
replaced.
• Large Target: For two additional points,
the Doomsayer may affect everything in a
Large Burst Template.
EMP TABLE
Cost Affected Items
2 Handheld electronics
3 Home computers, vehicle
ignition systems
4 Light military gear,
industrial computers
6 Military computers, junker
tech, shielded electronics,
headbanger chips, cyborgs,
normal robots
8 Heavily shielded electronics,
automatons
Mutate! HARROWED
Rank: Veteran
Power Points: 6
Edge: Harrowed
Range: Touch
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Spirit
Duration: Special
d6+
This insidious power is feared by “normals”
Special Rules:
and all but the craziest mutants. The
• Dominion: See below
Doomsayer must expend his Power Points
and then make a successful touch attack
against his opponent. With a success, he History
makes a Faith roll opposed by his victim’s
Some individuals are just too ornery to
Spirit.
lay down and die. But no human can do
On a success, the victim gains one this alone. To come back from the grave,
random mutation for a period of a week. a deceased soul has to catch a ride with
With a raise, the mutation is permanent. a demon—or a manitou as the Native
Americans called them long ago. The
• Additional Effect: By reducing the
manitou takes up residence in its host’s
Power Points spent to 1, the Doomsayer
body and grants it power, such as walking
can control the Glow so that the effects are
and talking despite being deceased, healing,
temporary (about 24 hours). This bestows
and more.
minor but very noticeable mutations such
as boils, purple skin, scales, horns, and the These undead heroes are called Harrowed,
like. This is usually used to give a norm which means “dragged forth from the earth.”
an appreciation of what their mutated
A manitou in an undead host is slain
brothers and sisters go through each
if the brain is destroyed (one of the few
day. It counts as the Outsider Hindrance
ways they actually can be killed), so they
among other norms.
only risk their otherwise eternal souls
on those with exceptional abilities. Weak
TRAPPINGS or infirm mortals are only resurrected
temporarily (hence the monstrous walkin’
Doomsayer powers are bright, flashy, and
dead common to the Wasted West) so that
often explosive. They glow with pure green
they aren’t permanently destroyed.
radiation that can sometimes leave after-
effects such as redness or skin pustules on The host and the manitou need each
those affected by them. other to keep the body moving, but they
don’t share this dwelling peacefully. It’s a
A Doomsayer about to cast a power
constant and hellish battle for control.
glows green with sizzling energy before
unleashing it—a tell-tale sign to others that For the most part, the manitou simply
doom is nigh. sits back and lets the Harrowed go about
his daily unlife. From time to time, however,
The “children of the atom” tend to
the demon tries to hop into the driver’s seat
call their powers names associated with
to do some dastardly deed. If the manitou is
radiation, nuclear war, or famous scientists
strong enough, it can take control of your
who worked in the field of atomic energy.
hero for a while and wreak havoc among
Blast, for example is nuke, while multiple
strangers and friends alike.
bolts are called MIRVs (a type of warhead
that stands for Multiple Independently-
targeted Reentry Vehicle), and lower trait is Dominion
the “Curse of Marie Curie.”
When a Harrowed first returns from the
grave he remembers suffering through his
worst nightmare. The manitou puts him
through its own little corner of Hell every
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 Recently deceased characters who first
become Harrowed start with a Dominion of
0, as do characters with the Harrowed Edge.
The host and the manitou are on roughly
even footing.
When the Marshal tells you to make a
Dominion roll, make a Spirit roll and add
your current Dominion. This is opposed by
the manitou. Dominion can never go below
–4 or above +4.
Drinking a quart or so of alcohol “pickles”
a Harrowed for a day or two. He’ll smell like
a drunk, but at least he won’t smell like a
dead drunk. Animals can always tell. Riding
rolls or any rolls involving the cooperation
of animals suffer a –2 penalty.
Harrowed can’t reproduce, or even enjoy
the attempt. Their blood doesn’t flow south
if you catch our drift.

DOMINION TABLE
• Success: The Harrowed retains
control and gains a point of Dominion,
or two with a raise.
• Failure: The manitou takes over
(and no doubt gets up to some evil
shenanigans); you lose 1 Dominion
point, or 2 if the manitou scored a
raise.
• Tie: The manitou doesn’t take
control, but your hero is Shaken.

THE UNLIFE OF A HARROWED

So what’s it like being undead? A
mixed blessing. A walking corpse is a
tough hombre to take in a fight, but he
has trouble making friends.

Death Wounds
Whatever puts a fellow down the first
time leaves a mark. The “death wound”
is essentially healed but scarred or
otherwise a deformity. A hero who was
shot in the chest, for example, has a
bullet scar there. One who was hanged
might have a slightly crooked neck and
a visible rope burn that never fades.

Decay
Undead have pale, sallow skin. They
don’t rot since the manitous sustain
their bodies with supernatural energy,
but they don’t smell like roses, either.
Anyone who gets up close and personal
with a Harrowed picks up the smell of
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Food and Drink steer. Harrowed suffer wounds normally, but
they can’t be killed except by destroying
Harrowed need meat—fresh or carrion— the brain.
to patch themselves up. Each healing roll
The only way a Harrowed dies is by a
attempted by a Harrowed consumes about
head shot. A called shot to the noggin will
a pound of flesh. The Harrowed must eat
do it, as will a Head result on the Injury
the meat, but he doesn’t necessarily have
Table. In case of the latter, if he fails his
to cook it first.
Incapacitation roll he’s dead for good this
Harrowed don’t need water, and while time.
we’re on the subject of libations, can’t get
Harrowed never bleed out and can ignore
drunk either. For that matter, Harrowed
all effects thereof.
aren’t affected by booze or drugs, and can’t
be poisoned or catch a disease (at least, Harrowed Incapacitated by damage to
not a normal disease). They are affected by other parts of the body are down for 1d6
supernatural radiation normally, however. days. They then regain consciousness and
can basically crawl until they get enough
Fear meat to heal their wounds. This even
regrows lost limbs.
Being a walking corpse hardens the mind
Harrowed don’t feel pain and they don’t
to horrific experiences. It doesn’t get much
really bleed either. That’s not to say they
worse than clawing your way out of your
don’t suffer wound penalties. In the case
own grave. Harrowed characters add +2 to
of the Harrowed, these penalties reflect
Fear tests.
damage to the Harrowed’s muscles and
bones, making actions more difficult—it’s
Sleep also a little distracting having your stinking,
rotted guts spilling all over your boots.
Whoever first said “he sleeps like the
dead” obviously didn’t know any dead folks.
Harrowed themselves don’t need sleep, but HARROWED EDGES
the manitou inside needs 1d6 hours of
The moment a character is Harrowed—
downtime out of every 24 to recharge the
regardless of the particulars of how
batteries, so to speak.
it happens—he automatically gets one
Unlike normal folk, Harrowed can’t really Harrowed Edge for free.
push it to stay awake; when it’s time to
sleep, the manitou just shuts the Harrowed
down. The Harrowed can try to resist, but
Cat Eyes
he must make a Spirit roll every hour or Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
keel over on the spot (and likely get buried
The character gains +2 to his Notice rolls
again when folks discover his heart isn’t
to spot visual clues, and ignores penalties
beating). This roll gets tougher as the night
for Dim and Dark lighting conditions.
drags on: each additional roll suffers a
cumulative –1 penalty, to a maximum of –3.
For the record, sleeping Harrowed aren’t
Improved Cat Eyes
completely oblivious. The manitou keeps Requirements: Seasoned, Harrowed, Cat
one eye open for trouble, so Harrowed are Eyes
just as likely as any other folks to wake up
The Harrowed can see in the dark, ignoring
if trouble comes along.
all penalties for lighting. He can also see
sentient beings’ auras. With a successful
Undeath Spirit roll, he can divine an Extra’s attitude
as defined by the Reaction Table (Savage
Harrowed are a pretty sturdy bunch. They
Worlds). A raise tells the deader if the target
don’t suffer Fatigue from mundane sources,
is a supernatural creature of some sort.
and non-lethal damage has about as much
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Chill o’ the Grave can become tangible again at the beginning
of his turn. If he somehow suffers damage
Requirements: Heroic, Harrowed (Shaken or one or more wounds)—say, from
a magical or supernatural attack—while in
They say the grave is damp and cold, and
this state, he must make a Spirit roll at –2
this Harrowed has mastered the ability to
or immediately become tangible.
radiate that chill from the Hunting Grounds
through his body, lowering the temperature
around him noticeably. Hell Fire
The deader makes a Spirit roll to use this Requirements: Heroic, Harrowed
power, dropping the temperature 10°F within
The Harrowed blasts raw fire drawn from
a Large Burst Template centered on the
the depths of hell from his fingertips. This
Harrowed. Anyone inside the template must
acts just like a flamethrower (see Savage
make a Spirit check or become unnerved,
essentially suffering Fatigue. A 1 on the
Spirit roll means the victim panics.
The chill lasts a number of rounds equal
to half the Harrowed’s Spirit die type. This
causes the Harrowed a level of Fatigue
that is naturally recovered in one hour. He
cannot use this ability if Exhausted.

Claws
Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
The hero gains sharp claws that cause
Str+d6 damage in combat. The claws may
be extended or retracted at will.

Improved Claws
Requirements: Veteran, Harrowed, Claws
The Claws inflict Str+d10 damage.

Ghost
Requirements: Heroic, Harrowed
As his first action during his turn, the
Harrowed can become incorporeal with
a successful Spirit roll (he can perform
no actions, including free actions, before
using Ghost). Once incorporeal, he must
remain in that state until the beginning
of his action on the next round (unless he
suffers damage, see below). While ghosted,
the Harrowed is intangible—unaffected by
the physical world and unable to affect
it—though he is still visible and magical
attacks affect him normally.
The deader may remain ghosted as long
as he wishes, but it requires concentration
and thus counts as an action for each round
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Worlds) and causes 2d10 damage. This uses
the Shooting skill to hit the targets, and a 1
on the Shooting die type causes a Shaken
result on the Harrowed.
Implacable
Requirements: Veteran, Harrowed
Most Harrowed take a while to get used
to the fact that they don’t suffer pain
anymore. They still grunt when shot and
limp when their ankle gets chewed by
some unholy varmint. It’s a mental thing.
Your Harrowed, on the other hand, has
overcome this block. He ignores two points
of wound penalties, cumulative with Nerves
of Steel.
Infest
Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
Insects also have spirits in the Hunting
Grounds and manitous have learned a few
tricks to control them. A Harrowed with
this power can control swarms of biting,
stinging insects. The creatures aren’t created
by the power, so they must be present in
the surrounding area.
To summon the swarm, the Harrowed
suffers a level of Fatigue. This gives rise to a
swarm of insects (see Savage Worlds) under
the undead’s control. The Harrowed cannot
use this ability if he’s already Exhausted.
The swarm dissipates when destroyed or
after about five minutes.
Soul Eater
Requirements: Veteran, Harrowed
A successful bare-handed attack with a
raise allows the Harrowed to drain the life
force of his victim, automatically inflicting
a wound on any living being.
Each time the Harrowed causes a wound
in this way, he may make a Spirit roll
opposed by his victim. If he is successful,
he repairs one wound. Even if the Harrowed
causes multiple wounds (from a Wild Card,
for example), he still only recovers one
wound himself.
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Alternately, the Harrowed hero may use
the drained energy to recover a Fatigue
level.
Spook
Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
The Harrowed draws upon the power
of the manitou within him to lend a little
extra substance to his intimidating glare or
grating voice. This adds +2 to his Intimidation
rolls. In addition, Wild Cards who fail must
roll on the Fright Table (see Savage Worlds).
Extras are Panicked. The ability may not be
used on the same target more than once in
the same general encounter.
Stitchin’
Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
A dead man with Stitchin’ regenerates
damage much faster than normal. He
may make natural Healing rolls every day,
provided he consumes a pound of meat for
each attempt.
Improved Stitchin’
Requirements: Veteran, Harrowed,
Stitchin’
The Harrowed may roll every hour.
Supernatural Trait
Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
Supernatural Trait immediately improves
any one attribute two die types (a d12
becomes a d12+2, and so on). This Edge may
be taken up to five times, but only once for
each one attribute.
Wither
Requirements: Novice, Harrowed
This terrible ability allows a deader to
drain the life and years of some poor sod.
With a touch, the Harrowed and the target
make opposed Spirit rolls. If the Harrowed
wins, the target’s Strength is reduced one die
type to a minimum of d4. With a raise, his
Strength and Vigor are both reduced. This is
a permanent loss but may be recovered by
advancement as usual.
 Components to fix it. Minor repairs,
JUNKERS equivalent to a Minor Malfunction, require
1d6 Components. Major repairs, as a Major
Malfunction, require 2d6 Components.
Edge: Arcane Background (Junker)
Total destruction, like a Catastrophic
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Repair
Malfunction, require a number of
d4+, Weird Science d4+
Components equal to the maximum
Arcane Skill: Weird Science (Smarts)
Power Points in the device.
Power Points: 10
• Spook Juice: Junkers can make spook
Starting Powers: 1
juice without a refinery. A successful
Backlash: As Weird Scientists (see Savage
Weird Science roll produces one gallon
Worlds).
of spook juice from one ounce of ghost
Available Powers: All in Savage Worlds
rock in an hour. On a raise, the junker
except disguise, divination, greater healing,
gets two gallons. Critical failure results
shape change, and summon ally.
in a spectacular explosion, causing 3d6
Special Rules:
damage in a Medium Burst Template.
• Gadgeteer: A junker automatically
• Weird Science: Junkers use all the
gets the Gadgeteer Edge for free, but it
rules for Weird Scientists in Savage
functions slightly differently (and he
Worlds, including the Malfunction Table.
cannot take the normal version of the
They may also take any Edges that require
Edge). He can bind a tech spirit into his
Arcane Background (Weird Science).
gathered components and create a device
that replicates any power available to
junkers a number of times per session History
equal to half his Spirit. The catch for
Junkers are the techno-wizards of the
this flexibility is that each device has
Wasted West. With the help of the spirit
a number of Power Points equal to the
world, they can build devices of incredible
Components consumed in its creation
power out of the ruins of technology
(up to half the junker’s maximum Power
scattered about the wastelands. They
Points). Since the gadget binds a tech
depend on tech spirits to hold their devices
spirit into its construction, this takes
together, ghost rock to power them, and
place very quickly—one action instead of
salvage for the physical components of
the usual 1d20 minutes required by the
their inventions.
regular Gadgeteer Edge. The junker has to
make a Weird Science roll to bind the tech Junkers tend to keep to themselves.
spirit, and suffers a –2 penalty for each Some choose solitary lives but most are
Rank the power is higher than his own. If ostracized by survivors who want nothing
the junker gets a raise on the roll, he only to do with folks who willingly deal with
uses half the Components required. spirits and ghost rock—it did destroy the
• Junkmen: Junkers collect world, after all. Of course, these misgivings
“Components” as they travel about the often vanish when a junker shows up
Wastes—bits and pieces of electronics, with some incredible device folks just can’t
chemicals, mechanical devices, and live without—like a ghost rock-powered
stranger stuff they use to augment and generator or alchemical healing salve.
create their weird devices. Components
A junkers’ typically bizarre appearance
are gathered anytime the part is allowed
only adds to most folks’ distrust. Most wear
to make a scavenging roll (see page 66).
techno-talismans made from discarded
The junkmen gather the scavenged items
bits of machine innards and have arcane
as usual, but also find 1d6 Components
schematics stitched into their clothing—or
with a success, 2d6 with a raise. Every
even tattooed into their skin!
five Components weighs one pound but
are otherwise non-specific odds and ends
with no other use.
• Repairs: Any time a junker’s gizmo
is damaged or needs to be repaired
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The Origins of Science!
In the years following the Great Quake of
1863, a new form of science appeared in the
world. Its practitioners liked to call it “new
science,” but most non-eggheads referred
to it as “mad science.”
The gizmos born of this science often
seemed to defy reality to a point where they
appeared almost magical. Their effects—
when they worked—were spectacular; when
they didn’t, the explosions were even more
so. Of course, the main reason folks called
it mad science was that those who dabbled
with it often became stark raving lunatics.
What these scientists didn’t understand
was that their technological insight was not
a product of their own genius, but inspired
by the manitous. The Reckoners sent their
underlings to whisper in the scientists’ ears
as they slept, and their dreams were filled
with bizarre and destructive devices.
When they awoke, they turned their
dreams into reality. These ghostly
visions loosened the inventors’
grips on reality and eventually
drove them mad.
It turns out the Reckoners
got what they wanted from
the mad scientists on July 3rd
2063—200 years to the day
after the Reckoning began—
the first city buster ghost
rock bomb was unveiled.
The Reckoners now had
the tools they needed to
destroy civilization and
terrorform the entire world
into a Deadland.
Having attained their goal,
the number of manitous
whispering in the ears of
mad scientists declined
dramatically. Inventors
the world over found
their muses suddenly
silent. Most
eventually gave
up their inventors’
workshops and
entered more ordinary
technical professions. A few took
their own lives.
When the Whispering Stopped
Not all the mad scientists who were
abandoned by the manitous gave up their
work. Some looked for answers. The Sons of
Sitgreaves was a movement that traced its
roots back to 1876 and R. Percy Sitgreaves,
the first mad scientist to discover the awful
truth about his “genius.” Since most mad
scientists refused to believe their inventions
came from anywhere except their own gray
matter, Sitgreaves and his followers were
outcasts in the scientific community.
But after Sitgreaves’ revelation, a few of
the Sons began studying other forms of
magic in an effort to better understand
the manitous and their goals. The demons
would no longer willingly help an inventor,
and in fact had nothing new to contribute.
Their knowledge of future technology
ended on July 3rd, 2063.
The spiteful things could
be coerced into sharing past
knowledge, such as how to
create goggles that can
see spirits or belts that
project fields of energy,
but their knowledge
was shady and they
certainly wouldn’t
power these devices.
But tech spirits would.
These new creatures
rose as man put a
little of himself into
his own inventions,
and were typically
tethered to the device
which spawned them.
The spiritual boom of
Judgment Day freed
the spirits, however,
and now the Hunting
Grounds are full of
them. They don’t get
along well with nature
spirits, who are frequent
and savage enemies.
The junkmen of the
Wasted West discovered
these tech spirits willingly
inhabited their infernal devices
to hold them together and
provide the magical “pilot light” to kickstart
their various powers, but to really fuel the
fire, they needed “ghost rays.”
Ghost Rays
The energy given off as ghost rock burns—
souls, basically—is similar to the energy
of the Hunting Grounds itself. When first
discovered by the Sons of Sitgreaves, the
energy was called “ghost rays,” or “g-rays”
for short. From this they developed the
g-ray collector. It collects spiritual energy
from ghost rock as it burns and stores it for
later use in “spirit batteries.”
The full limits of this new technology
had yet to be explored before the Last
War began. A few junkers were drafted
into government service—a junker was
responsible for the first true cyborgs, for
example—but their contributions to the war
effort came too little, too late.
After the Bomb
Once the bombs stopped falling, junkers
really came into their own. The world needed
folks who could get machines running
without a few vital components, and
junkers fit the bill. But the inventors need a
manitou’s guidance, a tech spirit’s soul, and
g-rays to do the job—all wild chicanery that
makes junkers pretty suspect.
Nonetheless, junkers are vital to keeping
many survivor settlements running, and are
therefore grudgingly tolerated. Only junkers
have the arcane knowledge required to
distill ghost rock into spook juice without
the aid of a major refinery, a skill in high
demand in the Wasted West.
the scraps they sort through. When a junker
with this Edge is allowed to scavenge (see
page 66), he gains 1d10 Components with
a success, 2d10 with a Raise.
Tapping the Net
Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
Background (Junker), Investigation d8+,
Weird Science d8+
Tech spirits see the Hunting Grounds as a
vast network of knowledge and information.
A junker with this Edge has learned to
get those spirits to do research for him.
Once per game session, he can make a
Investigation roll without any resources
(books, computers, etc.) with a +2 bonus.
Additionally, the spirits are constantly
streaming him generalized information,
granting a +2 bonus to Common Knowledge
rolls.
TRAPPINGS
Junker powers take the form of devices
assembled from pre-Last War technology.
Weapons tend to be firearms of some
sort, while defensive powers take the
form of armor, force fields, or gizmos that
obscure the caster. Utility powers might be
alchemical creations like pills or balms,
or energy beams that enhance a target’s
natural potential.

JUNKER EDGES
The following Edges can be taken by
anyone with the Arcane Background
(Junker) Edge.

Scavenger Supreme
Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
Background (Junker), Knowledge (any kind
of science) d8+
These junkmen have a keen eye for odds
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SYKERS
Edge: Arcane Background (Syker)
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Psionics
d4+, Smarts d8+
Arcane Skill: Psionics (Smarts)
Power Points: 10
Starting Powers: 3
Backlash: When a syker rolls a 1 on his
Psionics die, he suffers severe brainburn
that causes 2d6 damage plus half the
Power Points he was about to spend. If the
ability required 4 Power Points, for example,
brainburn would cause 2d6+2 damage.
Available Powers: Armor, barrier, beast
friend, backwash, blind, bolt, boost/lower
Trait, confusion, deflection, detect/conceal
arcana, disguise, drain power points, farsight,
fear, fly, havoc, healing (self only), invisibility,
mind reading, mindlink, mindwipe, puppet,
quickness, slow, slow burn, slumber,
smite, speak language, speed, stun, succor,
telekinesis, telekinetic squeeze, wall walker.
Special Rules:
• Baldness: Syker powers burn out the
user’s hair follicles. It can be regrown if
the syker ceases to use his powers, but
begins to fall out quickly the moment he
resumes.
• Psionics: Sykers may use Edges that
require Arcane Background (Psionics) (see
Savage Worlds).
HISTORY
The governments of the world learned
much in their long and deadly struggle
against the Reckoning. In America, the
Agency and the Texas Rangers captured
numerous creatures, studied countless
spellslingers, and eventually even learned
of the Hunting Grounds and the dark secret
behind ghost rock and mad science. These
governments—along with others around
the world—looked for ways to tap directly
into this power and create a new breed of
“super soldiers.”
The answer came in the form of Asian
priests and martial artists. These individuals
had managed to tap into the power of the
Hunting Grounds directly, without dealing
with manitous, nature spirits, or higher
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beings for their powers. Their power was
channeled directly through their psyches
and shaped by mental training.
After several world wars, it was clear
sykers were powerful battlefield agents,
but their real strength lay in intelligence,
misdirection and obfuscation. By World War
II, every major government employed these
mind warriors as spies and commandos.
The Faraway War
In 2044, Hellstromme Industries opened
the Tunnel, a gateway in space that allowed
ships to fly through and come out in a
distant corner of the galaxy called the
“Faraway System.” Faraway had seven
planets orbiting the local star, most of
which were useless hunks of rock, but the
fourth planet, Banshee, was inhabited by a
primitive race called the anouks, or “grapes”
for their purple color. More importantly,
Banshee had ghost rock.
Mining operations started almost
immediately despite frequent conflict with
the anouks. But despite their prowess,
the anouks didn’t have a chance against
the high-tech weapons of Hellstromme
Industries and later the United Nations
marines.
Not until the appearance of the Skinnies.
These grotesque creatures appeared to be
abnormally emaciated anouks, but it soon
became clear they possessed supreme
mental abilities. Embraced by the battered
anouks, these terrible creatures wiped out
colonial settlements and isolated military
outposts at an alarming rate.
UN General Paul “Overkill” Warfield
was tasked with stopping the growing
“revolt.” Warfield realized the skinnies were
extremely powerful psionics and called on
the UN member nations to send sykers
to Banshee. They were organized into the
United Nations Syker Legion—or the Legion,
for short.
Once the Legion arrived, the UN forces
went on the offensive. Warfield’s sykers
were at the forefront of countless battles to
exterminate the “grapes” and their skinny
overlords. Sykers also infiltrated human
sympathizer groups and used their mental
manipulation to turn their rebellious
Earth Sykers
followers on each other. While the Legion was battling anouks and
skinnies on Faraway, desperate generals
Near the end, sykers wound up fighting
back on Earth threw their remaining sykers
alongside UN troops as they assaulted the
into traditional attacks and defenses. But
anouk villages and eventually the skinnies’
their powers of infiltration and subversion
fortresses. The Legion had almost won when
were no match for machine guns, laser
the Last War broke out and the nations of
guided bombs, and hovertanks. Even their
Earth recalled their conventional forces.
ability to cloud minds meant little when
The Psychic Legion was left behind in faced with mindless warbots crawling
a vain attempt to organize the colonists across blasted battlefields.
against the rebels and anouks, a force
the leaders back on Earth rationalized as
nearly defeated. Sykers and a handful of
Colonial Rangers organized defenses all
over Banshee, but the numbers were too
great.
Then the sykers were recalled as well.
Some went gladly, happy to escape the lost
cause. Others resisted but were compelled
to return by force or coercion and leave the
colonists behind. In 2081, the last remaining
sykers boarded a Hellstromme Industries
ship called the Unity and returned home
through the Tunnel. Shortly after, the
Tunnel collapsed and the colonists on
Banshee were left to their fate (a tale told
in Deadlands Lost Colony).
The battered sykers became close in
these final days. While in transit, they
swore the “Oath of Unity,” after the ship
they traveled on. They vowed never to harm
each other, no matter who gave them the
order. Those who break this oath are called
Oathbreakers, and those who declined to
take it are called “Apostates.” One very
powerful syker, a member of the Voodoo
Guru platoon, even managed to somehow
burn a permanent “A” on these individuals’
heads. There is no love lost between
Oathtakers, Oathbreakers, and Apostates in
the Wasted West. Most of them blast on
sight.
The bombs fell while the Faraway sykers
were in transit. They arrived in our solar
system to find the Earth in ruins. Most
eventually boarded drop pods and landed
in Houston, Texas, then wandered on their
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 The most talented sykers quickly
developed new powers better suited to
this style of war. Many became killing
machines whose only purpose was to
destroy everything in their path.
It’s been said that if a Faraway syker is a
knife, an Earth syker is a tire iron.
SYKER HINDRANCES
Apostate/Oathbreaker (Major)
Apostates are Banshee sykers who
refused to take the Oath of Unity as it
returned to Earth. All of the Apostates had
a black “A” singed onto their forehead by a
group of sykers called the Voodoo Gurus.
This is permanent and cannot be removed.
Most Apostates are villains, but some
refused for reasons of loyalty to their
nation or because they didn’t trust the other
members of the “bald-headed brotherhood.”
Whatever the reason, if your character is
an Apostate, other sykers who aren’t are
enemies. Most are likely to look for a reason
to fight (to the death).
If your character swore the oath and later
broke it, she’s an Oathbreaker instead. She
didn’t get the black A on her forehead, but
if a rival Oathtaker discovers the treachery,
he is honor-bound by the oath to kill her.
Oath of Unity (Minor)
Your character is one of the Faraway
sykers who swore the Oath of Unity. He’s
vowed never to harm another syker who
also took the oath except in self-defense.
PSYKER EDGES
Fortitude
Requirements: Novice, Arcane
background (Psionics), Psionics d8+,
Faraway syker
This was a skill perfected on Banshee to
help the sykers of the UN Legion combat
the supremely powerful skinnies.
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A syker can suffer a level of Fatigue to
gain +d6 Power Points, or two levels of
Fatigue to gain 2d6 Power Points. This is a
free action.
The syker may not Incapacitate herself
with this Edge. Fatigue accumulated in
this way may be recovered by silent, still
meditation or sleep at the rate of one level
every four hours.
Overkill
Requirements: Novice, Arcane
background (Psionics), Psionics d8+, Earth
syker
Earth sykers who found themselves
thrown on the battlefields of the Last War
were unprepared to fight battles against
hovertanks, hordes of infantry, and warbots.
Those who survived did so by learning to
boost their powers by spending bits of their
souls.
A syker who has this Edge can increase
the damage of a single psychic attack by
incurring one level of Fatigue for an extra
2d6 damage, or two levels for an extra
3d6 damage. This must be decided before
damage is rolled.
Bonus damage applies to a single damage
total. If the power has multiple attacks (such
as projecting two bolts), the syker may add
the damage to two totals by suffering two
levels of Fatigue (Exhaustion).
The syker may not Incapacitate herself
with this Edge. Fatigue accumulated in
this way may be recovered by silent, still
meditation or sleep at the rate of one level
every four hours.
SYKER EQUIPMENT
The various governments of the world
developed a multitude of equipment to
make their sykers even more effective.
Added to that arsenal, mind freaks who
fought on Banshee found a variety of
psychic-boosting items that were used to
level out the playing field when taking on
the awesome power of the skinnies.
Amanitrol: This drug is made in crude
syker-run labs from common mushrooms
and fungi found throughout the world. It
makes it easier for sykers to concentrate,
allowing them to maintain multiple powers
with no modifier to their Psionics roll for
2d6 rounds. It does dull the other senses,
though, causing a –2 to all Agility-based
skills.
Cost: $100/dose; Scarcity: Uncommon.
Axor: This drug was developed by the
Mexican government back in the 20th
Century, but its secret soon spread, and
huge stockpiles were maintained by a host
of nations, including the US and CSA. While
impossible to make these days, there is still
plenty to go around if you can find a stash.
It makes it easier for sykers to concentrate,
giving them a +2 to their Psionics rolls for
2d6 rounds.
Cost: $100/dose; Scarcity: Scarce
Banshee Stones: A mineral found only on
Banshee, sykolite was used by skinnies in
a variety of types of jewelry or even hung
from their necks by thongs. Experimentation
by human scientists showed that this
so-called Banshee stone acted as a sponge
for psionic energy. These golf ball-sized
stones have 2d6 Power Points when found
or purchased. Sykers who wear them can
access these Points for their own abilities.
These Power Points return at the rate of 1/
day, and if ever drained down to zero, lose
1 Point permanently.
Cost: $1000/Power Point; Scarcity:
Unique (only available at the Marshal’s
discretion)
Green Bird of Heaven: Developed by
Chinese scientists in 2020 and distributed
in sticks of incense, Green Bird of Heaven
makes it easier for sykers to rest and
recharge their meridians. When burned
in an enclosed space, this incense allows
a syker to regain Power Points at double
their normal rate. Powerful headaches
sometimes result, though. A Vigor roll must
be made to prevent the mind freak from
becoming Fatigued for 24 hours.
Cost: $50/dose; Scarcity: Uncommon
(Great Maze); Rare elsewhere
Red: First developed from a plant on
Banshee, this drug soon became so popular
with sykers that seedlings were sent back
to Earth, where it was grown in secret
government labs. Many a clash has been
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fought by sykers over this resource, not
only due to the power it gives them, but
also due to its addictive properties.
Red gives a syker 5 more Power Points
that can be used in the next 2 hours, but is
powerfully addictive. If used less than once
a week, a brainiac needs to make a Spirit
roll at +2 or gain a Fatigue level. If used
more than once in a 7 day period, the Spirit
roll is made normally. A 1 on this roll gains
the hero the Major Habit Hindrance, which
in turn causes a –1 to all Psionics rolls when
not under the influence of Red. Snake eyes
requires a Vigor roll from the syker. Failure
means she turns into a “Red Zombie” (use
walkin’ dead statistics but with red skin and
the poor schmuck’s Psionic powers—time to
make up a new character).
Cost: $200/dose; Scarcity: Rare
Sykoactive Helmet: The sykoactive
helmet was issued to sykers of both
sides. Ordinary helmets often interfered
with sykers’ abilities so a special helmet
was developed. This helmet was made
of specially tempered ghost steel that
allowed the arcane energies used by the
brainburners to freely pass through it.
The helmet has all of the features listed
for the Infantry Battlesuit helmet and grants
Armor +2 to the head. The downside to this
helmet is that continued use eventually
causes the metal to become brittle. Roll
2d4 each time a syker uses an ability while
wearing the helmet. The helmet’s Armor
rating drops by 1 if the roll comes up snake
eyes.
Cost: $5000; Scarcity: Very Rare
TSAR: The Telepathically Sensitive Assault
Rifle was manufactured exclusively by
Hellstromme Industries before the war.
The top part of the rifle is an ordinary
assault rifle firing 5.56mm rounds (Range
24/48/96, Damage 2d8, ROF 3, Shots 30, Min
Str d6, AP 2, 3RB). Slung under the barrel,
however, is a gyrojet launcher from which
the weapon gets its name. A syker plugs
a cable into his head, which allows him
to interface with the weapon’s electronics,
locking onto the brainwaves of the target
and sending a gyrojet round out to seek
and destroy the poor sucker’s head.
 The round will fly around corners, up
and over walls, and even go through heavy
cover to hit its victim. The syker must make
a Psionics roll (modified by cover) opposed
by the target’s Smarts. If the syker wins,
the round hits doing 3d10+4 damage (as a
called shot to the head). On a tie, the round
hits but does not get the head shot bonus.
Harrowed can be targeted by TSAR rounds,
but not walkin’ dead.
Cost: $3000 (ammo $100/round);
Scarcity: Rare (ammo: Very Rare)
PSYKER POWERS
Several of the powers below were
developed by either Earth or Faraway
sykers. By this time, however, the knowledge
has been shared and either variety may use
them.
Backwash
Rank: Seasoned
Power Points: 3
Range: Smarts x Miles
Duration: Instant
This dangerous and highly-specialized
power allows a syker to send a powerful
and dangerous surge along a psychic link
from a target to its source. If an ally is
the subject of puppet, for example, a syker
could use backwash to send a mental blast
back along the psionic link and attack the
puppeteer.
The syker nominates a character
currently affected by another characters’
power. The syker and original caster then
make opposed arcane skill rolls. If the
enemy is anything other than another
syker, the attacker suffers a –2 penalty.
If the target loses, he suffers 3d6 damage.
If the attacker loses, he suffers a level of
Fatigue instead. It may be regained by four
hours of solid rest or sleep.
Mindlink
Rank: Novice
Power Points: 1+
Range: Smarts x 5
Duration: 30 minutes (1/10 minutes)
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Mindlink allows a syker to create a
limited telepathic connection between a
group of people. The syker is automatically
part of the group and pays 1 Power Point for
each additional character in the link up to
a maximum number of people equal to the
syker’s Smarts. The link is purely willing
communication, no thoughts that aren’t
consciously transmitted are read. Those
who do not wish to be part of the link
make an opposed Smarts roll against the
syker’s Psionics result.
If any character in a mindlink suffers a
wound or more, all other members must
make a Smarts roll or be Shaken. If the
linking syker is the one damaged, the roll
is at –2.
Mindwipe
Rank: Novice
Power Points: 3
Duration: Permanent
Range: Smarts
Sykers rarely get embarrassed. If they do
something they regret, they just scramble
the witnesses’ memories and make them
forget it ever happened.
Mindwipe causes a target to forget a
certain period of time defined by the syker.
The power requires a full five minutes
to cast, during which the victim must be
conscious (and usually restrained).
Mindwipe literally erases the memories.
The victim has no recollection of the time
lost. He likely won’t know this unless he
has specific reason to note a hole in his
recollection.
To use the power, the syker makes a
Psionics roll opposed by the victim’s Smarts.
If the syker succeeds, the victim forgets up
to five minutes of time, plus another five
minutes per success and raise. The time
lost doesn’t have to be recent—it could be
a childhood memory or something that
happened recently.
Slow Burn kill a foe in one quick blast, leaving nothing
but a mangled pile of bleeding flesh and
Rank: Novice busted bones. Sykers have been known
Power Points: 1–6 to rip out hearts (they call this “Aztec
Range: 24/48/96 surprise”), snap bones (“bone ripper”) or
Duration: Instant subtly pinch off major veins and arteries
On the battlefields of Earth, traditional (“the big one”).
syker powers proved of little use against
Regardless of the specific effect and
hovertanks and armored personnel carriers.
reaction, the attack is an opposed roll
Left with little choice but to improvise,
between the syker’s Psionics and the
brainburners learned to hyper-focus beams
victim’s Vigor. Such fine manipulation
of pure pyrokinetic energy that could
of an unseen object is very difficult—the
eventually penetrate even the heaviest
Psionics roll is made at –2. It does not work
armor.
on undead, constructs, or creatures without
A syker casting slow burn must be a beating heart.
stationary. He cannot move or be on an
Success inflicts 1d10 damage, plus 1d10 per
unstable platform such as most vehicles.
raise. Only magical armor protects against
The Power Points required depend on the this attack.
Armor of the target, as shown on the table
below. If a syker wants to burn through
a vehicle with 70 Armor, for example, he
TRAPPINGS
must spend 6 Power Points, and does 4d10 Syker attacks are usually invisible unless
damage, ignoring all armor, if successful.. they make use of pyrokinetic energy.
Defenses are similarly difficult to detect—
The beam counts as a Heavy Weapon.
the deflection power is a vague, shimmering
The syker can’t spend more points than
aura of energy, for example.
required or increase his damage by
spending more Power Points. Other psychic tricks, such as mind
reading or mind wipe, have no actual visual
effects, but the syker must concentrate
SLOWBURN TABLE quite heavily to do so. The saying goes that
if a syker ever looks you in the eye, he’s
Power
probably in your mind.
Armor Points Damage
1–4 1 2d6
5—10 2 2d10
11–40 4
3d10
41–70 6
4d10
71–100 8 5d10

Telekinetic Squeeze
Rank: Seasoned
Power Points: 3
Range: Smarts
Duration: Instant
This grotesque power uses telekinesis
to squeeze, pull, and tear internal organs,
bones, and other vitals. A good attack can

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TEMPLARS
Edge: Arcane Background (Templar)
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Faith
d4+, Fighting d6+, Spirit d8+
Arcane Skill: Faith (Spirit)
Power Points: 10
Starting Powers: 1 + healing
Backlash: When a Templar rolls a 1 on
his Faith die, he suffers a level of Fatigue.
Fatigue lost in this way may be recovered
with four hours of rest per level.
Available Powers: Armor, beast friend,
boost/lower trait, darksight, deflection,
disguise, environmental protection, farsight,
greater healing, healing, quickness, smite,
speed, succor, warrior’s gift.
Special Rules:
• Gear: Templars begin play with a
white tabard proclaiming their station,
and a sword chosen from the equipment
list as usual. This blade now has the
Improved Trademark Weapon Edge for
free. He cannot take the Edge again for
this weapon, but could take it normally
for others. When wielded by its owner, the
blade can hurt creatures typically immune
to normal weapons (except servitors).
• Miracles: Templars may use Edges
that require Arcane Background (Miracles)
except for Adept (see Savage Worlds).
• Templar Powers: Simon Mercer’s
knights may only use their powers on
themselves, with the exception of healing
and greater healing.
History
Simon Mercer was an accountant in
Boise, Idaho living the American dream.
He had a successful career, a nice family,
and was active in his local community as
a member of the Freemasons and a Boy
Scout Troop Leader.
He was on a business trip on Judgment
Day in eastern Washington when everything
he lived for vanished in a skull-shaped
mushroom cloud. Simon returned to Boise
and confirmed what he already knew: his
family was dead. From there he traveled the
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West for over a year, wandering from place
to place, working for food while wrestling
with severe depression.
One day, Simon was passing through
a nameless ‘ville somewhere in Colorado
when General Throckmorton’s thugs
showed up and demanded their tithes. The
town paid up and Simon watched as the
people went hungry. Then a tough female
Law Dog named Jenny Hise showed up, and
the town begged her for help. She agreed
and set off after the Black Hats.
A few days later, she came riding in from
the wastes on a motorcycle. She screamed
for the townsfolk to open the gates and help
fight Throckmorton’s goons, but to Simon’s
horror, they refused, saying that if they let
her in, the Black Hats would destroy them
all. The Ranger cursed and screamed but
stood her ground anyway, trying to protect
the ungrateful town. She never had a
chance. Simon thought it appropriate when
the Combine troops overran the town after
they were done with the stubborn Law Dog.
Simon managed to escape the carnage
and returned again to Boise. During the trip,
his depression slowly turned to anger. Hise
had been a heroine, but she had thrown her
life away for those who wouldn’t even fight
beside her to protect their own homes.
When Simon reached Boise, he crossed
into the maelstrom, wandered through the
ruins, and went to his old Freemason’s
Temple. A deep fever took hold as he lay in
the dark, stone building. Days went by as
he stared at the pictures of the old Knights
Templar that had given birth to the Masons.
His delirious mind dreamed of the knights
of old and watched the pictures of their
battles come to life.
When Simon finally awoke, he knew
what he must do. He would become the
first of the new Templars, a heroic figure
who would protect the weak. He would
draft others worthy of the title to join him,
and they would bring order and compassion
to this dark world. But these new Templars
would not make the same mistakes as the
noble but foolish Law Dogs. The Templars
would not throw their lives away on lost
causes. Nor would they die for those who
did not deserve their efforts. Thus he would
cull the guilty and preserve the righteous.
 Simon took an ancient, ceremonial declared himself Grand Master of the
sword from its display case and made a Templars. A trio of other Templars formed
tabard from an old sheet. Upon the tabard his permanent council.
he painted the red Maltese cross—symbol
Then two events struck at the order that
of the Knights Templar.
threatened its very existence. A splinter
group broke off under a charismatic
The Last Crusaders Templar named Brad Modeen. Calling
themselves the Anti-Templars, these dark
Simon cut quite a figure in his new
knights felt the Wastes were to be ruled and
uniform, and recruited a score of followers
quickly began to resemble the raiders and
in the first year. A few were simply after the
despots they had fought. Simon declared
power he promised, but they were quickly
them exiles and Templars throughout the
rooted out by the crusader and his loyal
West were ordered to attack them on sight.
inner circle.
Despite the eventual death of Modeen, a
Gradually, the supernatural energies new leader of the Anti-Templars has arisen.
of the Wasted West embraced the new The Brain, as he is known, has allied these
Templars and they began to develop black-tabarded scum with the Combine.
powers. Some developed preternatural
While the Anti-Templars threatened the
speed, others could withstand incredible
Order outside Boise, within the maelstrom
trauma and carry on fighting. All learned
something began attacking Templars and
to heal with a touch. Some Templars
their followers in their very headquarters.
believe their benefactors are the spirits
The Boise Horror, as this entity was
of the original Knights Templar, others
known, thwarted the best efforts of
say it is God himself. A few
those who attempted to
believe their holy rewards are
hunt it down.
granted by the spirits of all
the heroes who have fought Roughly a year ago,
evil and wickedness in the Simon fought and killed the
past. monster when it attempted to
disrupt the founding of the
It didn’t seem to matter
Iron Alliance at Junkyard. The
much where the power
Grand Master was mortally
came from, because Simon
wounded in the struggle, and
and his followers quickly set
a Templar named Jo Wales
out across the Wasted West to
was named his successor.
tussle with evil. They scored
many incredible victories and
soon attracted even more Becoming a Templar
would-be warriors.
Would-be Templars must spend a
year of their life in the service of
Trouble in Boise another Templar. These “squires”
serve until they die, leave the side
Simon quickly realized
of their mentor, or are brought
that the fledgling
before the Grand Master to
order would need a
become Templars themselves.
central headquarters
Squires wear no special uniform,
for communication and
nor are they issued any gear. Many
support. He returned to the
carry swords they’ve scrounged up
Freemason Temple inside the
themselves for they must learn the art
Boise maelstrom, decorated
of swordplay before they are vested in
the plain building with a
the Templar order. Each Templar may
single, large white flag marked
only have one squire at a time.
with the red cross of Malta, and
 Once the year is up, provided a Templar
believes his squire is ready, the squire is
presented to the Grand Master in Boise.
After an extensive interview and testing
phase, she decides if the squire is worthy
of the Templar tabard. If the Grand Master
is satisfied, the new Templar is issued his
sword and tabard; if not, the squire may
return to serve his master for another year,
or go his own way.
After initiation, Templars are expected to
visit the temple once per year or so. There,
they meet with the Grand Master and
inform her of their deeds and the state of
the world. Those civilian petitioners who
brave the maelstrom to reach the Temple
are heard daily, and if they seem worthy,
the Grand Master may assign a single
visiting Templar to accompany them to
their home. Once he arrives, the visiting
Templar may deal with the situation as he
wishes, or—if the petitioner or his people
prove unworthy—not at all.
Templars consider hand-to-hand combat
a sign of bravery, but they don’t hurl
themselves into a fray when a gun serves
them better. They generally use their swords
to save precious bullets, when they want
their foe to taste the fear of retribution
before they perish, or when they face
overwhelming odds and want to go down
swinging.
Templars don’t like to lose their swords.
If one is ever taken, they vow to get it back.
They also revere their brothers’ and sisters’
swords. When one falls, other Templars
eventually come to claim his sword. These
are then taken to the Temple in Boise and
hung in a place of honor.
The Test of Worth
Templars are a strange lot. A Templar
might turn his back on an entire village
one day, and give his life for a single child
the next. Their philosophy is centered on
worth, piety, and the greater good.
They protect those who they feel benefit
the world with their lives. Those who do
nothing to help civilization, who might even
harm it, are not to be defended. Templars
don’t help the wicked, and they have no
compunctions about “blackmailing” a
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settlement or individual into changing their
ethics in return for the knight’s aid. Some
call them selfish, and there is a certain
truth to that belief. Templars believe their
own lives are valuable to the future of
humanity, and they don’t risk them without
good reason.
A Templar’s primary tool in deciding
whether or not a person, family, or village
is worthy of their efforts is to visit them
disguised as a mutant, an outcast, a
diseased soul, or some other pitiful wretch.
If those in need treat him poorly, he usually
leaves before they even know they were
on the brink of salvation. If, instead, they
are sympathetic and compassionate to the
disguised Templar, he may choose to reveal
himself and pledge his sword to their cause.
The Pledge
Templars are sworn to protect the worthy
souls of the Wasted West from evil, whether
human evil or the more supernatural
variety. This is not, however, the only tenet
of the Templar creed. Templars and their
squires also observe the Oaths of Poverty
and Blood.
The Oath of Poverty requires a Templar
to gather only those goods and provisions
necessary to carry out his duties and
survive (including vehicles).
The Oath of Blood has been the subject
of some debate over the years. Once the
Grand Master grants a Templar his tabard
and sword, he gains all the powers of the
order immediately.
It also seems it is impossible to rescind
this blessing. Once granted, it seems, their
rewards are permanent. For those who
seriously abuse their power, through theft,
murder, or cowardice, the Grand Master’s
only recourse to protect the honor and
integrity of his order is to send other
Templars out to hunt down the errant
knights and kill them.
Keeping the Faith
Though Christianity was integral to
the original Knights Templar (and the
Freemasons as well) the Templars do not
consider it a requirement in an individual
Templar, nor is it the official creed of Though Simon Mercer has passed on,
the organization. While both Simon and some say he still watches over his flock
his successor, Jo Wales, were Christian from whatever spirit world the rest of the
themselves, they knew that in this day saints reside in.
and age there are many faiths. Most
With this Edge, a Templar can cast one
denominations believe God has forsaken
spell on himself each round as a free action.
the world anyway.
What the Templars do require is faith,
the belief that some “good” presence still
Sword of the Saints
watches over the world. There are many Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
theories among the ranks, but the most Background (Templar), Faith d8+, Fighting
common is that Templars are empowered d8+
by the spirits of fallen heroes of the past,
A Templar with this
called the Saints.
Edge does +2 damage
with any Fighting attack
TEMPLAR EDGES against supernaturally
evil creatures.
Templars believe the spirits of former
Additionally, a raise
exemplary heroes watch over them and
on the Fighting roll
grant them power. It may or may not be
against such a foe
true, but certainly the powers of good
adds +1d10 damage
reward these individuals as they battle the
instead of +1d6.
horrors of the Reckoning.

Blessing of the Saints

Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
Background (Templar)
When the Templar spends a Benny to
reroll a trait roll, he uses a d10 for his Wild
Die. If he has the Master Edge, he uses a
d12.

Chosen of the Saints

Requirements: Heroic, Arcane
Background (Templar), Blessing of the
Saints
When the Templar spends a Benny to
reroll, he adds +1d6 to the result. This die
can ace.

Shield of the Saints

Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
Background (Templar), Spirit d8+, Faith d8+
Supernaturally evil opponents gain no
Gang Up bonus on this Templar.

Simon’s Blessing
Requirements: Seasoned, Arcane
Background (Templar)

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TOXIC SHAMANS
Edge: Arcane Background (Toxic Shaman)
Requirements: Wild Card, Novice, Faith
d4+, Spirit d8+
Arcane Skill: Faith (Spirit)
Power Points: 10
Starting Powers: 2
Available Powers: Armor, banish, barrier,
blast, bolt, burrow, burst, damage field,
detect/conceal arcana, dispel, drain power
points, elemental manipulation, entangle,
environmental protection, farsight, fear,
fly, growth/shrink, havoc, healing, light/
obscure, pummel, shape change, smite, stun,
succor, summon ally, wall walker.
Backlash: When a Toxic Shaman rolls a 1
on his Faith die, he suffers a level of Fatigue.
Fatigue lost in this way may be recovered
with four hours of rest per level.
Special Rules:
• Choose Your Poison: The shaman
must choose to be a caretaker or a
corruptor, as discussed below. The two
sides are typically violently hostile toward
one another.
• Miracles: Toxic shamans may not use
Edges that require Arcane Background
(Miracles) (see Savage Worlds). They may
take a version of Gadgeteer they call
Fetish Creator with a requirement of d8+
in Smarts, Spirit, and Faith.
• Spook Juice: Toxic shamans can
regain Power Points quickly by drinking
spook juice (page 58). Each pint restores
1d6 Power Points (up to their normal
maximum), but causes a level of Fatigue
as the shaman gets drunk. It takes 4
hours to recover each level of Fatigue,
which no magic or tech can aid (including
powers such as succor). During this time,
the Shaman cannot recover Power Points
normally.
History
Nature spirits are a reflection of the
physical world, With the coming of
the industrial age, some nature spirits
began to be corrupted into “toxic spirits.”
Judgment Day accelerated this “evolution”
a thousand-fold. Mushroom clouds burning
with fire and damned souls littered the
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globe. Burning fuel dumps and bombed-out
factories poured tons of pollution into the
air, ground, and water. Depleted uranium
shells, ionized by the incredible velocities
with which they struck, spread radioactive
dust, and the ruptured containment
chambers of vehicle reactors leaked
radioactive water and steam.
Toxic spirits bred like wildfire in the
aftermath, and each one wanted what
all creatures want—to create more of
themselves and the environment that gives
them the most energy.
Corrupters & Caretakers
Some Indian shamans latched onto toxic
spirits early, but for the most part they’re
a recent phenomenon. Some embrace the
spirits and give them what they want in
exchange for power, while others attempt
to use the spirits to draw the toxins out of
the world.
The latter breed of toxic shaman are
called caretakers. When they cast a favor,
they feed the corrupted spirits by channeling
pollution from the world into the Hunting
Grounds for them to feed on. This is the
nature of their bargain. Caretakers hope that
one day they will clean the environment
and restore the balance. The distant spirits
don’t realize they’re contributing to their
own eventual destruction—they just know
that irradiated goo sure tastes good.
The flip-side of the caretakers are the
corruptors. These shamans are usually
evil (or at least destructive), and war
with caretakers on sight. There are also
well-meaning shamans who believe that by
siphoning off the toxic spirits’ power in the
spirit world they weaken them and give the
nature spirits a better chance of victory in
the Hunting Grounds, but these are few and
far between.
The Power of the Wastes
Toxic shamans in a particularly deadly
area may draw additional power into their
bodies. If in an area that normally causes
Fatigue or long-term effects due to pollution
(see Savage Worlds, Hazards), they recover
Power Points at twice their normal rate
(2 PPs per hour barring Edges). If they are
in an area that causes immediate damage,
they also reduce the cost of their spells by
1 Power Point for each Raise on their Faith
roll. This cannot reduce the cost below zero,
and the toxic shaman must have the points
available to cast the spell in the first place
before rolling.
TOXIC SHAMAN EDGES
Toxic Guardian
Requirements: Seasoned, Wild Card,
Arcane Background (Toxic Shaman)
A toxic spirit has manifested in the world
and attached itself to the shaman. This
“pet” is a source of power—and occasionally
mayhem.
All toxic spirits have the same basic
statistics. Its Special Abilities make it unique.
A shaman picks one type of spirit, and only
one, to bond to. This creature rises from
a pool or pile of waste to join this unique
human in the physical world.
If the spirit is slain, the shaman can visit
an appropriate source of pollutant—an insect
hive, an irradiated zone, a pool of sludge, a
belching smokestack, or a pile of trash—and
spend an hour resummoning it.
Toxic spirits have no mental link with
the shaman, but do understand reasonably
complex commands. They can be tasked to
guard, to escort, or even to die for their ally
(since “death” is a temporary state anyway).
Toxic Spirit
Attributes: Agility d4, Smarts d4, Spirit d8,
Strength d4, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
• Claws: The spirit has claws—physical
or otherwise—that cause Str+d4 damage.
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken, no additional damage from called
shots, immune to disease and poison.
• Size –1: Toxic spirits are generally 2’ to
4’ tall, or about the size of medium dogs.
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• Type: Below are five types of toxic spirits
that can manifest in the Wasted West. The
shaman chooses which type is his “pet.”
• Insect: The spirit manifests as some
kind of insect, or even a combination
of several pests. Flies and roaches are
common. The creature can fly at a Pace
of 12” and has a Climb of –1. Insect spirits
have some kind of stinger or weak
poisonous bite; if they cause a Shaken
or worse on a foe with a Fighting attack,
the target must make a Vigor roll or
suffer a level of Fatigue. See Poison in
Savage Worlds for rules on recovery.
• Radiation: These energy spirits look
like small clouds of irradiated vapor with
brilliant glowing eyes. They are not quite
Ethereal, but have +2 Toughness against
non-magical weapons and attacks. They
have Shooting at a d6 and can fire weak
radiation energy from their eyes at a
Range of 6/12/24. Those hit who fail a
Vigor roll suffer Fatigue. See Radiation
in Savage Worlds for rules on recovery.
• Sludge: Sludge spirits are small,
monkey-like creatures made of toxic
goo. They have +2 Armor from their
malleable bodies, and their sticky hands
and feet grant them the Wallwalker
ability. Sludge spirits can hide an object
up to 5 lbs. of weight within their gooey
bodies, though it may be a bit sticky
when returned.
• Smog: Creatures of black, choking
smoke. As an action, they can create
a cloud of black choking gas centered
on themselves equal to a Medium Burst
Template. Vision in the area suffers a
-4 penalty, and every living, breathing
creature within must make a Vigor roll
or be Shaken. Smog spirits can Fly at a
Pace of 6” with a Climb of -2.
• Trash: Trash or “junk” spirits are small
creatures made from piles of garbage.
They can hurl bits of themselves at foes
at a Range of 3/6/12 for 2d4 damage
with a d6 Throwing. Trash spirits gain a
+2 to Stealth in areas of junk or debris
(which covers much of the Wasted West).
Trash spirits can also sniff out the best
junk; they get a +2 bonus to Notice when
making a cooperative roll to aid their
master in scavenging (see page 66).
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 MARSHAL’S
HANDBOOK
Howdy, Marshal. The rules back here are
just for you. Some of ’em work with the
rules back in the player’s section, but these
are our little secret.
COUP
There’s another reward besides Bennies
you can give your posse when they defeat
a powerful abomination: coup.
Coup powers are creepy, supernatural
effects gained from absorbing the essence
of something creepy and supernatural. The
nastiest creatures in the Wasted West have
coup listed in their descriptions.
To count coup, a hero needs to be near
the abomination when it dies (within
game inches equal to the creature’s Spirit
die). Everyone present then makes a Spirit
roll. Have each player roll and spend any
Bennies on it secretly so that only you, the
Marshal, know everyone’s totals until the
rolls are finished. The hero with the highest
total gets the coup. Of course, the rest of
the heroes might be upset they lost out.
RADIOS
One of the key weapons in creating an
atmosphere of terror is isolation. What’s
a Marshal to do when his posse goes to
Junkyard and outfits themselves with a
bunch of fancy-pants radio headsets?
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Radio reception in the wastes is an iffy
proposition. The combination of terrain
and radiation interference can cause even a
reliable radio’s range to vary.
In general, the flatter the terrain, the
better. In places like the plains of Kansas,
radios should work at the listed ranges.
In mountainous terrain like the Rockies,
intervening mountains cut the range to
half. In cities or other urban sites, range
is quartered. Underground, range might be
measured in yards. In addition, any radios
used within 20 miles or so of a nuked city
have their ranges halved by the extreme
background interference.
The swirling clouds of radioactive debris
in the atmosphere also have an impact.
To determine radio performance on any
given day, pull a card from the Action Deck
and check the suit. Spades mean normal
performance, hearts halve range, diamonds
quarter range, and clubs mean no reception
at all. A Joker means a manitou is on the
other end, and uses the opportunity to sow
fear and confusion among these gullible
mortals.
The effects of interference are cumulative
with those for terrain and location. On a
bad day, a radio may not carry as far as a
hero can holler.
The important thing to remember,
Marshal, is to not worry about these rules
when it’s not important. If the heroes just
want to chat on the radio, let them. You
only need to check in crucial situations like
when the posse is calling for help or to see
if the Combine column they just shot up
can call for reinforcements.
THE VOICES
The swirling maelstroms left behind by
ghost rock bombs exist in both the material
and the spiritual world. Both worlds in
the vicinity of one of these storms are
warped and torn. This occasionally allows
denizens of the spirit world to slip through
the cracks and make themselves felt in the
material world.
One of the easiest ways for a spirit to
make contact is to speak through a nearby
radio. The heroes may occasionally pick
up transmissions from the netherworld
on their radios when operating within
50 miles of a bombed city. These ghostly
transmissions are your chance to introduce
adventure hooks, have a dead relative talk
to a hero, or whatever your evil imagination
can cook up.
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One last note. Radio waves are totally
disrupted by maelstroms and radstorms.
They cannot penetrate into, out of, or
through such a storm.
WEIRD WEATHER
As if the end of the world wasn’t enough,
folks have to deal with crazy weather too!
When Mother Nature runs amok, the best
thing to do is know ahead of time. When
one of the following effect is coming have
the posse make a cooperative Notice roll.
On a success, they have 30 minutes to
find shelter or 1 hour with a raise (halve
these times at night). Every 15 minutes, a
Survival roll can be attempted at –2 to find
protective shelter for 2d6 people, doubled
on a raise. Fatigue loss from weather effects
is regained at one level every four hours.
 Black Rain: Those caught out in this
nasty downpour must make a Spirit check
every 5 minutes or gain a level of Fatigue.
This continues until they die or the storm
passes. Umbrellas or other overhanging cover
give a +1 to the check, and only sealed armor
or an intact structure provides immunity.
Black Rain lasts for 1–2 hours. Harrowed
take Fatigue from this phenomenon as if
they were alive.
Duststorms/ Radstorms: The swirling
dust causes a Vigor roll every 5 minutes to
avoid being Fatigued. Those Incapacitated
begin to choke on the dust, and must
make the Vigor roll every minute at that
point. Duststorms last 2d6 hours. Luckily,
something as simple as a bandanna gives
a +1 to Vigor rolls, and gas masks add
+4. The fine particles are equivalent to
Darkness for sight and penalties. Harrowed
are not affected by duststorms other than
the Darkness penalties. Radstorms are
worse, applying a –2 to the Vigor roll, and if
Incapacitated, the character gets a case of
the glows (Ailin’ (Major) Hindrance). Anyone
who rolls snake eyes gets a random
mutation. Radstorms affect Harrowed like
everyone else due to the supernatural effect
of the radiation.
Hellstorms: These are pure Hell and
fury. For every 5 minutes, deal a card to
each character without complete protection
from the storm. On a Joker, that character
is struck by lightning for 3d12 damage.
Additionally, the hot rain and winds scald
the flesh and raise blisters. All other
exposed characters take 3d6 damage (cover
acts as armor as for area effect attacks).
The high winds rip flimsy things to shreds
though, and only buildings, vehicles, or caves
provide complete protection. Hellstorms
last 1–2 hours.
Toxic Clouds: These caustic clouds
grant a +2 to the Notice roll to see them,
but are one of the worst to get caught in.
They do 2d6 points of damage per round as
they burn the lungs. A gas mask provides
complete protection, and a wet bandanna
provides 2 points of armor against the
damage. Toxic clouds can dissipate almost
instantly or stick around far longer than
expected; they last 2d10 rounds.
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MUTATIONS
Heroes and villains in the Wasted West
can pick up mutations from a variety of
sources, ranging from simple background
radiation to the miracles of the Doomsayers.
Just for the record, the radiation given off by
ghost rock bombs is in part supernatural,
so it affects Harrowed just like anyone else.
If a mutation grants an Edge or Hindrance
a hero already possesses, the brainer gains
the trappings of the mutation (see below)
without any effect. Further, a waster who
gains an Edge need not meet the prerequisites
for that Edge.
When a character gains a mutation, have
the player draw a card as instructed by
the mutation source, then check the result
yourself. Don’t forget to give a little cackle,
Marshal. The mutations listed here are
similar to arcane Powers, in that they are
purely mechanical. The mutation’s trappings
are up to you. In general, shoot for creepy
rather than scientifically plausible.
A waster who gains a die type to Notice,
for example, might get bat-like ears or
find his eyes glow green, while a fellow
who suffers a –1 to his Vigor die may have
paper-thin skin. This goes for folks who
gain Edges or Hindrances without a normal
physical aspect as well. A mutant who
picks up Yellow, for example, might have
a rat-like face or reflexively cluck like a
chicken. Regardless of the “trapping,” the
waster gains the Charisma penalty as the
Mutan Hindrance (unless the mutation says
otherwise).
MUTATION TABLE
Deuce: This waster cashed in his chips in
the mutation casino. Whatever his mutation
is, it alters his body so drastically that it kills
him. Draw to see if he’s Harrowed normally,
Marshal, but if he comes back it’s obvious
to everyone that he shouldn’t be walking
or talking. He suffers –4 Charisma. If this
comes up in character creation, redraw one
card (no matter how many the waster drew
originally).
 Three: The radiation twists the mutant’s Joker: The waster won big in the
body or mind, and he loses one die type in mutation lottery. He may choose any of
a random trait (minimum d4). the following mutations: +1 die type to any
Trait, +2 Charisma, +2 Armor, or any Edge
Four: The mutant suffers some physical
available through random mutation (see
debilitation. Roll 1d6: 1=Ailin’ (Major), 2=Bad
above). Moreover, his mutation is hidden or
Eyes (Major), 3=Elderly, 4=Hard of Hearing
does not alter his appearance—he doesn’t
(Major), 5=Lame, 6=Small.
have the Charisma penalty from the Mutant
Five: Radiation bakes the mutant’s Hindrance (though he doesn’t lose it if he
brain. Roll 1d6: 1=Bloodthirsty, 2=Clueless, already had it).
3=Delusional (Major), 4=Overconfident,
5=Vengeful (Major), 6=Yellow.
Six: Radiation erodes the mutant’s body
VETERAN O’ THE
or coordination. Roll 1d6: 1=All Thumbs,
2=Ailin’ (Minor), 3=Bad Eyes (Minor), 4=Hard
WASTED WEST
of Hearing (Minor), 5=Heavy Sleeper, 6=
Obese. This is the table that lets you know how
mean you get to be to the power hungry
Seven: The mutant gains some new
players who might just have bitten off more
insight, and by “insight” we mean a case
than they can chew. Cackle here, too, if you
of the crazies. Roll 1d6: 1=Cautious, 2=Death
like. In some cases, though, you may want
Wish, 3=Delusional (Minor), 4=Mean,
to keep the result secret.
5=Stubborn, 6=Vengeful (Minor).
Eight: Some mutations are just flat out
unappealing. The mutant gains the Ugly VETERAN O’ THE
Hindrance.
Nine: The mutant suffers some handicap
WASTED WEST TABLE
that penalizes him in a particular area. He Deuce (Jinxed): This hombre ran into
loses one die type in a random skill. something that jinxed him bad. He gains the
Bad Luck Hindrance. If he already has it, it
Ten: The waster’s mutation is purely
stacks and he starts with two less Bennies.
cosmetic. He gains the Mutant Hindrance
but no other effects. Three (Hunted): The veteran didn’t
finish the job. Something is looking for
Jack: The mutant gains some physical
him, and it wants him dead—or worse. The
or mental advantage that grants him an
Marshal gets to whip up some nasty beastie
advantage in a particular area. He gains one
to come looking for this poor bastard. It’s
die type in a random skill, which could be
something fairly powerful, certainly a Wild
a d4 in a new one.
Card, and perhaps more clever than strong.
Queen: Radiation sharpens the mind, It might look to make the hero’s life a living
granting the mutant an Edge. Roll 1d10: Hell instead of just springing out of the
1–2=Alertness, 3–4=Combat Reflexes, darkness one night.
5–6=Improvisational Fighter, 7–8=Level
Four (Mutation): This brainer spent a
Headed, 9–10=Linguist.
little too much time getting a radiation tan.
King: Radiation enhances the mutant’s He gains the Mutant (Major) Hindrance. If
physique, granting him an Edge. Roll 1d6: he had it, draw again for another mutation.
1=Ambidextrous, 2=Brawny, 3=Dodge,
Five (Addicted): The hero would like to
4=Fleet-Footed, 5=Nerves of Steel, 6=Quick.
forget the things he’s seen. He has a Major
Ace: The radiation enhances the mutant’s Habit for alcohol, a drug, or possibly even
body or mind, and he gains one die type spook juice.
in a random trait. Roll a d10: 1–2=Agility,
3–4=Smarts, 5–6=Spirit, 7–8=Strength,
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 Six (Night Terrors): The cowpoke can
never forget the horrors he’s experienced.
They even haunt him in his dreams, giving
him the Night Terrors Hindrance.
Seven (Maimed): An encounter with
a creature left one of the character’s
limbs maimed or entirely missing. Roll a
d6. On a 1–3, he’s Lame; on a 4–6, he lost
his non-weapon hand has the One Arm
Hindrance.
Eight (Cyclopean): One of the abomi­
nations the hero encountered caught him
across one side of his face. He has the One
Eye Hindrance.
Nine (Insane): This dude’s run across
the worst the Wasted West has to offer, and
it left him with a Major Delusion.
Ten (Paranoid): This hero’s seen things
he shouldn’t. He’s afraid of the dark, afraid
to wander out of camp to relieve himself,
and so on. He gains the Yellow Hindrance.
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Jack (Infected): The last creature this
hombre tussled with left a mark that won’t
go away. The hero has some sort of strange
wound or possibly the glows, giving him
the Ailin’ (Major) Hindrance.
Queen (Bollixed): This road warrior has
a bad case of gremlins. These buggers infect
every device the hero uses, including guns
and any other mechanical or electronic
item. Anytime the hero rolls a 1 on his trait
die when using a device, it breaks, requiring
2d6 hours and a successful Repair roll to
fix. Junker devices malfunction on a skill
roll of 1 or 2!
King (Marked For Death): Some
intelligent and evil abomination from the
hero’s past uttered a dying curse. All of the
hero’s Soak rolls are at –2.
Ace (Forsaken): Long ago, this brainer
did something awful to survive an encounter
with the supernatural. Ever since, the spirit

world won’t aid him on a bet. No beneficial
magic works on him. Unfortunately, bad
mojo works perfectly fine.
Black Joker (Cursed): The hero’s very
soul was damned by one of the insidious
creatures of his terror-filled past. The player
draws only one Benny at the beginning of
each play session, or none if he has the
Bad Luck Hindrance.
Red Joker (Eternal Hero): Fate chose
this fellow to combat the forces of darkness
across the centuries. He is her champion,
and she does not want him to die—at least
until he has fulfilled his destiny. The hero
gains a +2 bonus to all Vigor rolls! This is
not without tragic consequences, however.
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Perhaps a dear friend or loved one takes
the bullet meant for him instead; or while
he is immune to a disease to which he is
exposed, he becomes a carrier and infects
everyone around him until he is cured. Any
time his Wild Die comes up on 1 on a Vigor
roll, the effect he rolled against rebounds in
some way. Fate’s a bitch.
THE HARROWED
Harrowed aren’t made, they’re born. Well,
reborn, anyway.
Manitous don’t go around blithely
reanimating folks, especially heroes with
hearts of gold. No, it takes something special
for a body to get a manitou’s attention.
Specifically, manitous are only interested
in those folks that can help generate more
fear. Considering the original soul is liable
to be in charge a good chunk of the time,
it has to be a lot of fear to make up for the
good the hero can do after coming back
from the grave.
In short, the deader has to be one hard
individual for the manitou to reanimate him,
and it’s even better if he’s famous. Nothing’s
more fun for a manitou than ruining a
shiny reputation.
Manitous are more likely to Harrow folks
that have a bunch of experience under
their belts. When a hero dies, shuffle up
the Action Deck and deal one card for each
of his Ranks. If he has Guts Edge, add
one draw, and if he has the Grit Edge, add
another. If a Joker comes up, the hero’s on
his way back from the boneyard. Keep in
mind there are a few occasions when a
manitou won’t animate even the hardiest of
heroes. Since a manitou needs somewhere
within the body to focus its supernatural
enemies and the brainpan is protected by
the most bone, manitous prefer the noggin.
Should the hero’s noggin be destroyed by
his death—or detached from the rest of his
body—the manitous take a pass, regardless
of what the cards say.
 One more thing—it’s rare a manitou
Harrows an Extra. Don’t bother dealing
cards for those folks. On the rare occasion
a manitou can do a lot of damage with an
Extra’s rotting corpse, just assume it goes
ahead and hops on that gory gravy train.
HITCHHIKER FROM HELL
Now that you’ve saddled one of your
heroes with a manitou, what do you do with
him? For the most part, just let the hero go
on as he did before he died. Manitous don’t
generally interfere in a hero’s day to day life.
It’s just not interested in whether he orders
whiskey or beer, for example. That said, if
a manitou sees an opportunity to spread a
little fear around, it’ll jump on it faster than
you can say “shiny new flesh puppet.”
Just remember a manitou won’t knowingly
endanger its host, because if a Harrowed
dies, the manitou dies along with him.
Once the manitou decides it’s time to
come out and play, here’s how you do it. First,
you have to ante up a Benny. Once you’ve
paid the piper from Hell, tell the hero to
make a Spirit roll opposed by the manitou’s
Spirit (a manitou’s Spirit is always one die
type greater than the Harrowed’s), and make
sure the Harrowed applies his Dominion
modifier to this roll. If the manitou wins,
adjust the hero’s Dominion as described
on page 73. Oh, and the manitou’s in charge,
too. The manitou keeps control for 1 hour.
You can spend an additional Benny at the
end of each hour the manitou is in control
to keep the manitou in charge for another
hour.
PLAYTIME
Now that the manitou’s in charge, just
what does he do with the poor waster’s
body? Whatever he wants, Marshal. Just
remember manitous aren’t stupid, and
they’re very conscious of getting caught
and killed for their misdeeds.
That in mind, a manitou’s goal is chaos,
mischief, and fear, but not necessarily death.
They almost never make an outright attack,
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instead preferring to rely on dirty tricks
and subtle machinations. But if one of the
Harrowed’s companions is in a precarious
and inescapable position, most manitous
won’t be able to resist taking advantage.
For example, if a mad scientist friend of
the Harrowed’s stands looking over the edge
of a deep pit full of hungry prairie ticks, no
manitou could resist giving the poor fellow
a little shove.
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
Once a Harrowed hero starts losing
Dominion, he begins down a slippery slope.
For now, he may just lose control for an
hour or two. However, if the Harrowed’s
Dominion is at –4, the manitou might have
a chance to take permanent control.
Anytime the Harrowed goes to the
Injury Table (and isn’t killed by a shot to
the noggin) when he’s at –4 Dominion, the
manitou may attempt to take permanent
control. This works like the more temporary
process described above, except that if
the Harrowed loses, it’s for keeps. You just
gained a rotten new villain, Marshal!
HARROWED ABILITIES
We mentioned it above in passing, but
it bears repeating: manitous have all the
abilities of their host. If a Harrowed syker
loses Dominion, the manitou gets to take
advantage of his mental powers. The only
exceptions to this are powers of Doomsayers,
Templars, or Toxic Shamans.
That doesn’t mean, however, the hero
can’t use these abilities while he’s in charge.
Despite the demon squirming around inside
his noggin, whatever allows the hero to
manifest these extraordinary abilities still
allows the wasters access to these powers
when his Hellish houseguest is not in the
driver’s seat.
Just as manitous can use a Harrowed’s
abilities, they cannot use any abilities the
Harrowed lacks. A manitou is limited to the
same bag of tricks as the hero he inhabits.
 Statistics aside, a manitou has a few deal in specific locations. Unless noted
more advantages. While the reverse isn’t otherwise, assume locations found in a
true, a manitou can see and hear what the region share the region’s Fear Level.
Harrowed’s does, even when the Harrowed is
in control. This makes it nearly impossible
to fool a manitou into revealing its true
Fear Level 0
nature. This is a place where people live in happy
communities complete with freshly painted
Even if a clever posse does manage to
houses with white picket fences, the trees
trick it somehow, interrogation doesn’t net
are green, the sky is blue, and folks aren’t
much information. Manitous know only that
afraid to go out at night. If you find one of
they served the Reckoners by sowing fear in
these places these days, let me know.
the world, and those manitous still in spirit
form harvested it and took it back to the
Hunting Grounds. They don’t know what’s Fear Level 1
going on now that the Reckoners have been
In these areas, wasters believe monsters
banished from the Earth, so they keep on
exist, they just haven’t seen any. The sky
sowing the seeds of fear and reaping the
is still blue, but if you go out at night, it’s
whirlwind.
smart to bring a buddy and some spare
Oh, and manitous aren’t privy to the ammo.
schemes of abominations or other manitous,
either. They’re not omnipotent, nor do they
make up some sort of hive mind.
Fear Level 2
No one goes near the creepy old ruins
on top of the hill, and they’ve bricked up
FEAR LEVELS the sewers “just in case.” The land looks
about the same, but the shadows are just a
little bit longer. It’s not really safe to go out
Even before the Last War, the Reckoners
alone at night, but it’s not a death sentence,
and their minions worked to terrorform
either.
the earth to bring about The Reckoning.
Judgment Day was the culmination of
their plans. Where before a servitor or Fear Level 3
abomination had to spend months or even
Things are starting to get a little weird.
years to raise the Fear Level of an area, the
There’s an occasional disappearance, and
detonation of a ghost rock bomb created
probably more than a few weird creatures
an instant Deadland. Areas not directly
live close by (though folks don’t really talk
transformed into a Deadland by a GR bomb
about it). Don’t go out at night without a
soon found themselves under assault by
weapon or a friend. This is the general
the minions of the newly-freed Reckoners.
prevailing Fear Level in most places these
The Wasted West is a terrifying place for days.
the average brainer. An area’s Fear Level—a
measure of how scared the local populace
is—actually reflects on the terrain. This, in
Fear Level 4
turn, inflicts a penalty to all Fear checks There are mysterious disappearances,
equal to the local Fear Level. Additionally, in and when the bodies are found, it’s piece
Hell on Earth, the terrain makes life harder, by piece. The land itself starts to change:
inflicting the penalty on Survival rolls for the shadows on the cliffs start to look like
food and water as well. Each region of the leering faces, or cornrows always seem to
Wasted West has an overall Fear Level, as rustle as if something’s hiding within. The
noted in their entries in The Wasted West winds of the High Plains might whisper
(page 105). That said, this can vary a great your name.

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Fear Level 5
There’s no doubt something’s amiss.
Folks have seen monsters, and almost
everyone’s terrified. Most flowers die,
but weeds have no problem thriving.
Don’t go out at night without an armed
posse.

Fear Level 6 (Deadland)

This is as bad as it gets, Marshal: a full
blown nightmare landscape. Monsters
run rampant, rocks look like skulls, and
not only do the winds of the High Plains
whisper your name, they do so in your
dead friend’s voice. Anyone out at night
is dead meat.

LOWERING THE FEAR LEVEL

Once the posse defeats a major evil,
one of the heroes may make a Persuasion
roll to tell the tale of the group’s victory
over the forces of darkness. This roll
is modified by the Fear Level, and if
successful, the hero’s story reduces the
local Fear Level by 1. Exactly how “local”
this is depends on the hero’s audience.
If he spreads the story to the population
of a small town, he probably lowers
the Fear Level within that town only.
If he manages to arrange for ComSat
to broadcast his tale across the Wasted
West, he might lower the Fear Level
anywhere there’s a radio to pick up the
message of hope.
A poorly-told tale can be misinterpreted
as confirmation of the awesome powers
of the horrors that lurk in the night. If
the hero rolls a 1 on his skill die, he
actually increases the Fear Level by 1.

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SCROUNGING
So your posse’s looking for a little easy
loot, eh? The tables here are guidelines on
what they find. Don’t be afraid to change
the results to suit your campaign or your
whim, Marshal. Oh, and just so you don’t
feel left out of the fun, you can draw for
an encounter each day they waste poking
around in the pre-war leftovers.
SPADES (WEAPONS & ARMOR)
The heroes hit the jackpot, and stumble
across an abandoned military bunker,
depot, or even the remains of a battlefield.
Deuce (Primitive Weapon): Roll 1d20:
1–3=bow; 4–5=boomerang; 6=crossbow;
7–11=knife; 12–15=compound bow; 16=bowie
knife; 17–19=sharpened hubcap; 20=shuriken.
Three–Four (Pistol): Roll 1d20: 1=Colt
Peacemaker; 2=flintlock; 3–4=IW-91;
5–6=Marlin .22 target pistol; 7–8=Police
Pistol; 9–10=NA officer’s sidearm; 11=Ruger
Redhawk; 12=Ruger Thunderhawk; 13–14=SA
officer’s sidearm; 15–16=S&W .38 snub;
17–18=S&W model 85; 19–20=S&W model 683.
Five–Six (Rifle): Roll 1d20:
1–2=blunderbuss; 3–6=lever-action; 7–9=HI
Damnation; 10–13=Hunting Rifle; 14=IW-40;
15=NA M-42; 16–17=NA XM-21; 18=SA M-50;
19=SA XM-40 “Ripper”; 20=Springfield
Musket.
Seven–Eight (Shotgun): Roll
1d10: 1–3=Double-Barreled Scattergun;
4–7=Double-Barrel; 8–9=Pump Shotgun;
10=Auto-Shotgun.
Nine (Submachine Gun): Roll 1d10:
1=HI Thunderer; 2–3= HI Blazer; 4–5=NA
commando; 6–7=SA commando; 8–9=HK
MP-20; 10=Tokarev machine pistol.
Ten (Heavy Weapon): Roll 1d12: 1=NA
SAW; 2=SA SAW; 3–4=Armco Grenade
Launcher; 5–8=NA M-720; 9–11=SA M-230;
12=Rocket Launcher.
Jack (1d4 Grenades): Roll 1d12 for
each grenade: 1=Bean Bag, 2–3=Buckshot,
4–5=Flash Bang; 6–7=Frag; 8=Inferno;
9–10=Smoke; 11–12=Riot Control.
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Queen–King (Hand Weapon): Roll 1d20:
1–3=Axe; 4–5=Bayonet; 6=Mini-Chainsaw;
7–8=Brass Knuckles; 9–10=Knife; 11–12=Bowie
Knife; 13–14=Machete; 15=Great Axe;
16–18=Spear; 19–20=Sword.
Ace (Armor): Roll 1d20: 1–3=Boiled
Leather Shirt; 4–6=Boiled Leather Pants;
7–8=Cold Weather Gear; 9=Improvised
Armor (Legs); 10=Improvised Armor
(Arms); 11–12=Improvised Armor (Torso);
13=Improvised Armor (Head); 14=Infantry
Battle Suit; 15=Infantry Helmet; 16= Civilian
Executive Protection Armor; 17=Kevlar Vest;
18–19=Motorcycle Helmet; 20=NBC Suit.
HEARTS (FOOD & SUPPLIES)
The heroes stumble across a cache of
food, fuel, or some other consumable.
Deuce (Preserved Food): The heroes
find a cache of canned goods, boxed dinners,
or other preserved food item. There’s 2d20
meals’ worth.
Three (Milrats): The posse finds an old
military surplus shop, or perhaps a long
abandoned reconnaissance camp. They
find 2d20 milrats.
Four (Clean Water): 1d4 gallons of clean
water.
Five (Soda): 1d6 cans of assorted sugary
colas.
Six (Bubbly-Fizz Soda): The posse
finds a case (24 cans) of Bubbly-Fizz cola.
See page 172 for more on this stuff.
Seven (Dr. Pepper): 1d6 cans of Dr.
Pepper (see page 44).
Eight (Batteries): 2d10 batteries. Roll
1d10: 1–5=small batteries; 6–7=medium
batteries; 8–9=large batteries; 10=ghost rock
batteries (reroll for size ignoring results of
10).
Nine (Raw Ghost Rock): The posse
finds a small vein or cache of 2d10 ounces
of ghost rock.
Ten (Spook Juice): The posse finds a
cache of spook juice, or a wrecked vehicle
with a full tank. Either way, they salvage 10
gallons’ worth.
 Jack (Liquor): The scavengers find an
old still or pre-war liquor store that hasn’t
been picked clean. Roll 1d4: 1–3=2d4 bottles
of post-war rotgut; 4=1d4 bottles of the
good stuff.
Queen (Tobacco): The posse finds d6
cigars.
King (Water Purification Kit): See
page 45 for details.
Ace (Medical): Roll 1d8: 1=Medchip
Scanner; 2=Medboard; 3–4 Medkit; 5–7=Medkit
Restocks (1d6); 8=Sprayskin (2d10 uses).
DIAMONDS (EQUIPMENT)
The posse stumbles across an abandoned
shipping crate or a store/warehouse that
hasn’t yet been picked clean.
Deuce (Camping Gear): Roll 1d4:
1=Bedroll; 2=Iron Skillet; 3=Mess Kit; 4=Tent
(2 Person).
Three (Tools): Roll 1d10: 1=Wood Axe;
2=Drill; 3–6=Rope, 7=Hammer, 8–9=Shovel,
10=Pick.
Four (Leisure Item): Roll 1d4: 1=Guitar;
2=Harmonica; 3=Pipe; 4=Cards.
Five (Time Piece): Roll 1d6: 1–3=Digital
Wrist Watch; 4–5=Analog Wrist Watch;
6=Pocket Watch.
Six (Survival Gear): Roll 1d10:
1–2=Backpack; 3–4=Canteen; 5=Compass;
6–8=Box of Matches; 9–10=Water Test Kit.
Seven (Personal Hygiene Supplies):
Roll 1d6. 1–4=Soap, 5–6=Toothpaste.
Eight (Eyewear): Roll 1d6. 1–3=Sunglasses;
4–5=Binoculars; 6=Night Vision Goggles.
Nine (Salvage): Roll 1d6: 1–2=Flashlight;
3–4=Handcuffs; 5=Geiger Counter;
6=Lockpicks.
Ten (Motorcyle): Roll 1d8: 1–2=ATV;
3–4=Dirt Bike; 5–6=Street Bike; 7=Motorcycle
with sidecar; 8=Hover bike.
Jack (Weapon Accessory): Roll 1d8:
1–2=Bandolier; 3–4=Holster; 5=Laser Sight;
6=Scope; 7=Suppressor (Pistol); 8=Suppressor
(SMG).
Queen (Vehicle): Roll 1d4: 1=SUV; 2=Van;
3=Tractor trailer; 4=Sports car.
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King (Military Transport Vehicle):
Roll a d6: 1–4=HMMWV; 5–6=APC.
Ace (Military Armored Vehicle): Roll a
d6: 1–3=Tank; 4–6=Air Defense Vehicle.
CLUBS (AMMO)
The heroes find bullets (the caliber found
depends on the value of the card drawn).
Deuce (Projectiles): Roll a d6:
1–4=Arrows, 5–6=Crossbow Bolts (3d10)
Three (.22): 20+2d10 rounds
Four (.38): 10+2d10 rounds
Five (9mm): 10+2d10 rounds
Six (10mm): 10+3d12 caseless rounds
Seven (.45): 3d12 rounds
Eight (.30/.30—06): Roll a d6: 1–3=.30;
4–6=.30-06 (3d12)
Nine (5.56mm): 4d12 rounds
Ten (7.62mm): 4d10 rounds
Jack (Magnum): Roll a d6: 1–3=.357;
4–6=.44 (3d12)
Queen (Shotgun Shells): Roll a d6:
1–5=12-Gauge Shells; 6=Slugs (3d12)
King (.50): Roll a d6: 1–4=.50 pistol/SMG;
5–6=.50 rifle/MG (3d12)
Ace (gyrojet): Roll a d6: 1–3=.50 pistol;
4–5=.50 rifle (3d10); 6=TSAR (1d6)
JOKER (MEMENTO)
The hero finds a memento that reminds
him of his past. This might be a wind-up
musicbox, a toy similar to one he bought
a child before Judgment Day, or a postcard
from a place he remembers visiting in
better times.
At any given time, the hero can “expend”
the memento for a Bennie. Once the Bennie
is used, the memento no longer has any
power. It may be kept or it may be lost or
destroyed, but it has no game effect once
triggered.
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 THE WASTED
WEST
This chapter has the lowdown on all the
major places your posse might go during
their wandering of the blasted Americas,
as well as plenty of places they’ll wish they
had never stumbled across. The Wasted
West is a harsh mistress who doesn’t give
the weak a second chance.
The following pages give a rundown of
the major regions of the wasteland, from
the muddy water of the Mighty Miss to the
blood-soaked shores of the Shattered Coast.
This is where we give you, the Marshal, the
real skinny on what’s happening where,
when, and to whom.
We dedicated entire books to some
of these locales in the classic edition of
Hell on Earth. If you’d like that kind of
detail, visit www.peginc.com and pick up
the setting you’d like to dig deeper into.
The rules are different, but the additional
background might give you ideas for your
own campaign.
PLACES OF NOTE
Each regional description describes
several places of note that lie within the
area. Obviously there are plenty of places
besides those described. These are simply
some of the major settlements or significant
locations of interest to wasteland wanderers.
Feel free to add other places as you see fit.
The list of ruins, survivor settlements, and
just plain weird places is endless.
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Encounter Tables
Each regional description in this chapter
has an Encounter Table. This is a quick way
to come up with a threat or encounter as
your posse wanders the wastes. Significant
regional road gangs are usually described
there as well. Don’t roll on these tables
when the posse is in a survivor settlement—
there’s plenty of trouble for them to get into
without using these tables.
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Fear Level 6
If your posse is insane enough to go
across the Mississippi, they’re in for a
shock. Despite Raven having led hundreds
of thousands of undead of various sorts
across the river for his big showdown,
millions of the things remain. There’s lots
of loot lying around, but the pain-to-gain
ratio is high. Raven has spent the last 13
years making sure there are few survivors,
reducing the last stronghold in Minier,
Illinois to rubble just before the Harvest
kicked off. Only the dead and worse inhabit
these lands.
No known settlements remain. Any living
humans scramble around in small gangs
or live underground in old sewers or caves.
Even these are few, and extinction is a word
the remaining scavengers repeat frequently.

GREAT BASIN
Deseret (Utah), Nevada, Las Vegas
Fear Level 3
Since the Last War, and especially since
the formation of the Iron Alliance and the
events of the Harvest, this area has taken
on a greater importance in the wastelands.
The Mutant King attempts to consolidate
his power by testing the borders of Junkyard
while Joan’s Heretics fight over the hearts
and minds of the mutant population.
These great power struggles take place
against a backdrop of increasingly frustrated
road gangs who were once aligned with
the Iron Oasis, as well as settlements who
are now isolated more than ever with the
destruction of the Convoy.
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It is a time of troubles for Ike Taylor
and the Council of the Wasted West’s
largest settlement, Junkyard.
ENCOUNTERS
Besides the inhospitable environment
and general desolation of the region,
there are a number of other things your
heroes may encounter while in the Great
Basin.
Roll on the Encounter Table every 12
hours the posse spends traveling in this
area, and once when they set up camp.
If the group spends a significant amount
of time camped in one location, roll once
every 24 hours and ignore any results that
call for a specific terrain type.
Black Rain (page 95): Black Rain douses
the party.
Doombringer (page 170): The posse
encounters a Doombringer and his retinue
of 3d10x5 mutants.
Dust Storm (page 95): A massive dust
storm approaches.
Hostile Mutants (page 194): A band of
Silas’ followers is out looking for sacrifices
to the Glow. The group is made up of a
raiding party of 2d10 mutants mounted on
horseback (1–4 on a d6) or vehicles (5–6).
Mojave Rattler (page 180): The ground
begins to tremble…
No Encounter: The heroes encounter
nothing of significance.
Rad Patch: The travelers wander into an
area contaminated with radioactive fallout.
If the group has an active Geiger counter,
they notice the rads immediately and can
avoid a case of the glows with a Vigor roll.
If the radiation is not detected, the heroes
blunder through it with full exposure.
Road Gang: A road gang of 2d10 raiders
(page 194) mounted on an assortment of
motorcycles, pick-ups, and sedans draws
near.
Road Orcs: The Road Orcs are one of
the largest gangs in the west. This gang
of ugly mutants has around 200 members
and is based out of Shan Fan, but Silas has
invited them into his territory around Vegas.
They travel in groups of 30 to 50, with the
majority of the gang riding motorcycles,
but they have a few larger vehicles as well.
Their leader, Red Fang, drives a heavily
modified sport-utility vehicle equipped
with a fixed 125mm tank cannon scavenged
off a Powell hovertank mounted on it. The
Highway Patrol is offering 600 bullets, in
addition to the 1,000 bullet reward posted
by the Law Dogs, on Red Fang’s misshapen
noggin.
Toxic Cloud (page 95): A cloud of death
approaches the heroes.
Trader Caravan: A convoy of 2d10
transport vehicles along with 2d4 outriders
in pick-ups or motorcycles is spotted ahead.
They are willing to trade with friendlies and
have a decent assortment of goods. Draw
four cards on the Scavenging Table (page
102), for some additional finds they might be
willing to part with.
THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND
Fear Level 6
Lying off old Confederate Interstate 40
is an area of the Mojave called the Devil’s
Playground, so named because of all the
strange rock formations in the area.
Government seismologists detected what
they suspected was a huge lair of Mojave
Rattlers under the weird rock formations,
so the Confed military thought it would be
the perfect place to station the Confederate
1st Armored Infantry. There the army tested
their latest powered body armor against
these giant creatures.
When General Harlow was chasing the
LatAm troops to the coast during the
opening stages of the Last War, the 1st
Armored Infantry stopped at their home
base for recharge and repairs. The vengeful
worms were waiting for them. A score of
rattlers and hundreds of wormlings burst
out of the desert and swarmed the surprised
Rebels. None of the humans survived, but
they took a lot of worms with them.
These days dozens of crushed suits of
power armor are scattered around the ruins,
as well as destroyed vehicles and a decade’s
worth of rattler bones.
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GREAT BASIN
ENCOUNTER TABLE
1d20 Result
1–4 No Encounter
5–7 Road Gang
8–9 Doombringer
10–12 Mojave Rattler
13 Toxic Cloud
14 Rad Patch
15 Hostile Mutants
16–17 Road Orcs
18 Black Rain
19 Dust Storm
20 Trader Caravan
A waster with powered armor might find
some spare parts out there, but it’s impossible
to put together a full suit from the pieces
that remain. The rattlers still lurk below,
nursing their wounds and replenishing
their numbers. Anyone who follows one
of the many subterranean tunnels is in for
a world of hurt, encountering 1d6 rattlers,
4d20 wormlings and a quarter that number
in wormling warriors (round down).
FORT 51
Fear Level 6
For over 200 years, Fort 51 was the
US Army’s top-secret weapons research
laboratory. Everyone knew it existed; they
just couldn’t get close enough to see what
was going on there.
Its isolated location in the southern
deserts of Nevada ensured its privacy, and
its proximity to the border allowed it to
keep an eye on the Confederate base at
Roswell and occasionally conduct secret
raids or experiments on them.
Fort 51 got hit hard both by conventional
ghost rock bombs and specially created
enhanced-yield devices designed to tunnel
hundreds of feet into the earth and detonate
below ground level. It had some sort of
defense shield but apparently the system
failed.
The surface of Fort 51 is a nightmarish
sight. No less than five maelstroms overlap
like some demonic Olympic symbol on
a cosmic scale. More ghost rock bombs
actually struck the installation, but several
merged together to form the five seen
today. 
Anyone entering these maelstroms
finds them to be double the usual thickness.
Far beneath the ruins are several levels of
labs, storerooms, and living quarters. Initially
the scientists and soldiers underground
were safe until a horde of wormlings came
through the walls and dragged them off to
horrible fates, leaving a warlord’s ransom
in goods preserved in the complex.
If a way could be found to tunnel down
to the intact installations hundreds of
feet below ground (maybe through the
wormling tunnel system), a group could
find a veritable treasure trove of equipment,
weapons, and goods of both a mundane
and exotic nature. Fort 51 was the center of
Northern research and development, so the
equipment in the dusty storage vaults and
laboratories is limited only by the Marshal’s
imagination.
There are still a few active defenses
around the ruins. A passel of well-armed
and armored veteran walking dead formed
from the remains of an infantry brigade
originally stationed here lie dormant and
lifeless among the wreckage until living
beings approach. A number of functioning
warbots (treat as mechs from Savage Worlds
armed with an NA SAW with a double belt
of 200 shots and an M-95 missile launcher
on each shoulder) keep curious scavengers
a healthy distance from the ruins.
INDEPENDENT CITY OF LAS VEGAS
Fear Level 6, population 12,000
Smack dab in the middle of the desert sits
a tarnished jewel that once drew millions
to it like moths to a flame. These days it
still does, but these moths usually have too
many eyes or wings made out of excess
skin. You see, Las Vegas is the heart of the
mutant kingdom ruled by Silas Rasmussen,
the leader of the Cult of Doom.
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Way back in the late 1800s, Las Vegas
declared itself a free city-state, playing the
major powers of the USA and CSA against
each other to maintain its independence.
Before the Last War, the Independent City
of Las Vegas occupied an area bounded in
the east by the Colorado River, the south/
southwest by the old California border,
northwest by International Highway 15, and
from the city to Boulder Dam along Route
95. Within the boundaries of Las Vegas
could be found Boulder City, Searchlight,
and Laughlin, as well as hundreds of square
miles of parched desert.
International Highway 15 West divided
NorCal and SoCal, with the Mason-Dixon
Wall paralleling it to the north and south.
Since its founding, the city served as a place
where anything went, from sex to drugs to
legal gambling, all under the watchful eye
of the organized crime families who ran
Vegas from the shadows.
The good times came to an end on
Judgment Day when an enhanced ghost
rock bomb detonated under the eastern
suburbs of the city, throwing up a 20 mile
diameter maelstrom and killing or mutating
almost everyone in the city. In the following
years the inhabitants vied for power until
the appearance of Silas Rasmussen,
who united the muties under his twisted
ideology of the Cult of Doom, based at
Heaven’s Gate, the crater of the bomb that
created what many now call “Lost Vegas.”
Las Vegas is generally divided into the
Strip and Downtown. Outside the Strip
and the Downtown areas, most of the
surrounding ruins have been heavily picked
over by Silas’ minions, with their contents
brought back into the maelstrom for the
cult’s use.
An aqueduct runs from Lake Mead to the
Strip, bringing a reliable source of water
to the thirsty mutants of Vegas. Thanks
to Boulder Dam, Vegas even has a reliable
source of electricity, and at night the bright
lights of the city can be seen for miles
around.
Not everyone who lives in the City o’ Sin
is a devoted follower of Silas Rasmussen.
Several groups have managed to survive the
Cult of Doom’s purges and work against
the Mutie King’s rule, either actively or
passively.
Currency
Silas established a currency for his
kingdom shortly after coming to power
consisting of casino chips from the old
Luxor resort. The idea caught on throughout
the areas claimed by the Mutant King, and
many moneychangers set up shop both in
and outside of the maelstrom who gladly
exchange outside goods and equipment for
their value in “Lux’s.” Minus a ten percent
fee, of course.
Rival Factions
Silas Rasmussen is the undisputed king
of Vegas, but three other factions remain
in the shadows. The least powerful are the
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remains of the Cult of Grendel, followers of
a monster Silas killed in his early days that
established his rule.
Gangsters haven’t entirely left Vegas
either. A shadowy figure known as “The
Don” leads a group of heavily-armed mob
enforcers and crime family members from
before the Last War.
The last faction is composed primarily
of enforcers from the old Las Vegas Police
Department. These anti-mutant norms
claim to be Law Dogs, but most others
don’t accept them as such since they act
more like militia for the walled suburbs
they patrol.
These norms and mutants would like to
return the city to the way it was before the
bombs fell.
The Maelstrom
The maelstrom that surrounds the city
is significantly weaker than those that
surround most other ruins. Silas drained
it in a massive ritual to open a gate to
Idaho. He and his army poured through and
attacked a rival mutant’s stronghold that
threatened to further splinter the children
of the atom.
Vigor rolls made to pass through the
storm walls (see page 65) are made at –2
instead of –4.
The Strip
The center of Silas’ Cult of Doom, the Strip,
while heavily damaged by the ghost rock
bomb on Judgment Day, is still remarkably
intact. Most of the iconic casinos still stand
in various states of disrepair. The Strip
itself has been mostly cleared of debris,
and rickshaws can be rented for those who
don’t like to walk to their destination in the
hot sun.
The Strip contains the majority of the
pre-war casinos, with Silas’ capital at the
Luxor. The muties that make up the vast
majority of Vegas’ citizens these days are
a wild and varied bunch, and those with
similar mutations tend to congregate
together. Birdmen flock to the Bellagio,
aquatic mutants in the old Venetian, a
recreated Roman legion dwells in the ruins
of Caesar’s Palace, animalistic muties herd in
the Mirage, and even some super-intelligent
apes gather in Primate Paradise.
Silas encourages this form of tribalism,
forcing the different gangs to compete for
the scarce resources in the ruins is a way of
enhancing the teachings of Saint Darwin—
and perhaps keeping his followers pitted
against each other rather than himself.)
Downtown
Wasters can find all kinds of trouble
outside the environs of the Strip. Madame
Toussaud’s Wax Works is the source for
all sorts of dark rumors. The remains of
the Las Vegas Celebrity General Hospital,
Forever U, and Siegel Station are just some
of the prominent features to be found in the
Downtown area.
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Surrounding Area
When the sun goes down, all sorts of
things come out from under the rocks they
hide beneath by day and make the ruins of
greater Vegas their own. Silas has enacted
cleansing policies to make the Strip safe
from the wandering horrors of the ruins,
but his safe zone doesn’t extend more than a
few hundred yards off the Strip. As a result,
the creatures which haunt this Deadland
have learned to live in the surrounding
ruins and do their hunting at night.
Heaven’s Gate is the impact crater formed
from the ghost rock bomb that struck the
city, and is a conduit to Heaven according
to the teachings of the Cult of Doom. The
University of Las Vegas has been refurbished
and its laboratories are now under the
control of the Doomsayers.
JUNKYARD
Fear Level 4, population 16,000
Originally settled by the Mormons to
escape religious persecution, Utah was
part of the United States until the Civil
War came along and made it one of the
“Disputed Lands.” Then Mormon leader
Brigham Young declared Utah would
become the sovereign state of Deseret until
such time as the war was decided. Two
hundred years later, Deseret remained its
own country right up until the bombs fell. Its
most famous resident (despite an absence
around the turn of the 19th Century), was
none other than Dr. Darius Hellstromme,
whose smoke-belching factories gave the
city its nickname of “The City o’ Gloom.”
Though Hellstromme was deported by the
Mormons in 2044, he left a secret shield in
place over his remaining factories. When the
bombs fell, the part of Salt Lake City called
Junkyard, with its mostly non-Mormon
population, survived, while the city proper
and about three-quarters of the Mormon
population vanished in a skull-shaped
mushroom cloud. Once the dust settled,
every last surviving Mormon gathered their
possessions, formed a massive convoy, and
disappeared north into the wilds of Canada.
 After the Mormon exodus, the city fell
prey to looters, bandits, and raiders. When
food ran out, most Junkers (don’t confuse
Junkyard residents with the uncapitalized
“junkers”) left the city and joined the
growing road gangs. A militia was organized
and quickly established law and order, and
eventually a former factory foreman, Ike
Taylor, took up the reins of power.
Ike came up with a unique plan. Instead
of fighting the road gangs, he decided
he’d join them. Taylor and his right-
hand man, Doc Schwartz (who is a real
junker), converted some of the surviving
Hellstromme munitions factories into
refineries. Then they hauled ghost rock in
from the nearby Wasatch Mountains and
distilled it into spook juice.
When the gangs inevitably came around,
Ike invited them in and did the unthinkable—
he actually showed them the city’s defenses,
including flamethrowers powered by spook
juice, heavy machine guns, and even a few
grenade and rocket launchers. Ike then told
them if they could bring Junkyard food and
other salvage, they’d give them spook juice
for their vehicles. All the gangers eventually
agreed, and Junkyard went from a besieged
island in the desert to an iron oasis. Anyone,
regardless of their morals, can come into
Junkyard’s territory to trade.
Now, six months after the Harvest,
Junkyard is a city besieged and the Iron
vehicle for a one week travel pass. Once
Alliance is in danger of shattering. Huge
inside, a waster can trade salvage at the
refugee camps surround the city, living
Junk Repository in exchange for the city’s
off a daily dole of nutra-algae from the
currency—the widget—a generic term for
settlement’s soy tanks. The road gangs are
old bits and pieces of technology the city’s
becoming restless and the dispossessed
junkers think might be useful.
have started to prey on the weak and the
helpless within the city’s territory, despite Lost technology fetches a higher price
the best efforts of the militia. here than most anywhere else because of the
number of junkers or their representatives.
Just outside the gates (but still under
There’s always a buyer, and trade caravans
the watchful guns of the walls), sits the
full of junk arrive daily. Anything from
Mutant Welcome Center set up by Joan and
toasters to highly experimental prewar
her Heretics. Unfortunately, it’s become a
government tech is a commodity in this
focus for the prejudices of the norms living
busy place.
in the squalid camps surrounding Junkyard.
The Iron Oasis is a powderkeg waiting for
a spark. Outer Junkyard
There’s only one gate into the city in the Just inside the main gate is Outer
outer wall. Guards inspect travelers and Junkyard, a cleared field that was once
their vehicles as they enter and collect downtown Salt Lake City before it was
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Outer Junkyard is bursting at the seams
with tents, shelters, and even RVs in which
live the more affluent refugees—at least
until they can’t afford to pay for their
weekly travel passes. Then it’s out to the
camps huddled outside the walls.
Outer Junkyard is also home to the Market,
a large warehouse where anyone can rent
a booth or stall and go into business. Just
about anything can be found here, from
livestock to vehicles to junker gizmos,
although weapons seem to predominate.
Also in this area of Junkyard is the Pit.
This huge blast crater is surrounded by
bleachers and ringed with a spiked metal
fence. For $5 fans can come watch gladiators
battle each other or strange creatures of
the wastes, as well as place bets with the
house or anyone in the stands.
Inner Junkyard
Surrounded by the remains of the dome
that once covered the factory district and
the workers’ ghettoes, this is the part of
Junkyard that the hordes outside aspire
to live in. Inner Junkyard has electrical
power, and therefore attracts scores of
junkers looking for juice to power their
bizarre experiments. A power outlet comes
free with most apartments (which rent for
about $300 a month for a one room flat),
or a brainer can rent a daily hookup at one
of the factories for $25 a day. One can also
subscribe to cable TV (with its local feed
of old movies or Junkyard news), Junkyard’s
internet (Junk Mail), G-ray power service,
and even phone service. None of it works
very well, but it’s a step toward trying to
recover what was lost after the end of the
world.
A variety of hotels can be found
throughout Inner Junkyard that cater to
all types of visitors, from the high class
Junkyard Hilton to the ‘Yard Arms Hotel.
Bars also run the gamut, and tend to attract
like-minded folks to them, from bloodsport
fans to Sky Pirates.
Junkyard Memorial Hospital is most
likely the only working hospital left in
North America, and the Darius Hellstromme
Library holds nearly four million volumes
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in its ten stories. Junker Row is where
most of the city’s junkers live, work, and
sell their amazing creations. This is also
where a brainer can find a body doc if he’s
looking to augment himself with a bionic
system. Most customers are pit fighters, but
unlucky wasters who have lost a piece of
themselves to the horrors of the Wasted
West often come here for a replacement as
well.
Down Below
The Down Below consists of the two
sub-levels of the city. Most access routes
have been sealed or blocked off, the better
to keep strange creatures the locals dubbed
“Morlocks” (after the Jules Verne novel)
from coming to the surface and abducting
the good citizens of the settlement for a
tasty snack. The Morlocks consist of feral
humans, mutants, and worse. Rumors
abound of the other things that lurk in the
darkness, ranging from Combine infiltrators
to abominations to lost Hellstromme
Industries factory complexes from before
the Last War.
JUNKYARD PRICES
Item Price
Arena Admission $10-$25
Beer $5/bottle
Budget Hotel $45/night
Cable Service $25/month
Derelict Building $100,000+
Electric Service $25/day
Ghost Rock $160/pound
G-ray Service $100+/month
Junk Mail service $30/month
Junker Component $10 each
Junkyard Hilton $150/month
Phone service $20/month
Rent (one month) $300-$2000
Soy Burger $5
Spook Juice $8/gallon
Steak, beef $75
Steak, rattler $35
Travel pass $50/head/week
$100/vehicle
Whiskey $2/shot; $10/
bottle
Food in Junkyard the bomb. Deathsports have also expanded
to include a number of contests that revolve
The hottest topic throughout the Iron around motor vehicles. Every week there are
Oasis and the surrounding refugee camps is demolition derbies, arena duels, full-contact
where the next meal will come from. Junkyard drag races, and the like.
has always had a precarious position when
it came to feeding its population, and the
acquisition of food was one of the primary
Bionics
reasons the trade with the road gangs was Bionic augmentations were first pioneered
started. in Junkyard. A lot of Junkers lost arms and
legs in the factories, and replacing them
After the Harvest, with the decimation
with metallic constructs seemed preferable
of the road gangs at the Battle of Worms,
to going without. Of course some hacked
as well as the destruction of the Convoy
off their limbs on purpose to to augment
and the influx of refugees fleeing Raven’s
themselves with metal limbs or other
hordes, the food situation is worse than
accessories, and many did so to become
ever. Junkyard sends out heavily armed
stars in Junkyard’s second biggest
aid convoys with soy products and
industry: bloodsports.
water once a week, but the amount
is much too little for The body doc’s bionics
the hungry masses. look like throwbacks to the
It’s a situation 1800s. They’re big and clunky
reminiscent of and prone to jamming up
the early days just when needed most.
of the City of That’s why they call folks
Lost Angels and with bionics “scrappers,”
Reverend Grimme. because it looks like their
Readers of the augmentations were made
Weird West Plot out of scrap metal.
Point campaign The
If a waster loses
Flood know how well
a limb and buys a
that went.
replacement, he should
make sure he can pay
Bloodsports the bill. The body docs
sometimes make
The people of Junkyard have engaged
“loans” to folks who
in violent athletics called bloodsports
have a good chance
almost since the founding of the city.
at making money off
After 2044 these games were the only
the augmentation,
big business left in Junkyard, with
but those who don’t
promoters trying to outdo each other
pay find themselves
with bigger, bolder, and bloodier events.
hunted by the body
This obsession has carried on to this
docs’ hired thugs. The
day, despite, or perhaps because of, the
unfortunate debtors’
misery the average waster experiences
bionics are amputated
every day. The teams have high mortality
and they’re left limbless
rates, but if they get really good, they
and penniless in the
become the closest thing the world has
understreets of Junkyard.
to superstars.
A few basic bionic parts
Bloodsports are played all over the
are listed below. These
Wasted West, but their home was
gadgets were common enough
and is Junkyard. It’s also where the
in pre-war Salt Lake City that
skullchucker championships are held
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them. Reattaching a mechanical hand is
still an incredibly complicated task, mind
you. It’s just that the Salt Lake City Workers’
Memorial Hospital was the leading center
for bionic replacements in the world. Only
a couple of the real surgeons survived the
bombs, but many more interns did.
Here’s a list of the most common
replacement parts even the least skilled
surgeon can install. Note that these parts
simply replace a normal limb. The loss
of one’s self is manifested by a decrease
of a die type in the hero’s Spirit for each
part replaced. These bionics don’t confer
additional Strength, Pace, or so on.
There are other advantages, however.
When the character is Incapacitated and
fails his Vigor roll, if the location rolled for
the injury is a bionic limb, the injury will
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not cause a “bleeding out” effect. These
replacement parts cannot be healed, but
can be repaired with a –2 Repair roll.
If the Marshal wants to provide access to
bionic enhancements, we suggest picking
up the The 1880 Smith & Robards Catalog,
available at www.peginc.com, and using
the Steam Augmentation rules. The fuel
may be irradiated ghost rock now, but the
effects are the same.
REPLACEMENT LIMBS
Limb Cost
Arm $1,000
Hand $6,000
Leg $4,000
Foot $4,000
THE GREAT MAZE
NorCal, SoCal, The City of Lost Angels
Fear Level 4
Ghost rock is the main reason anyone
in their right minds would live in this
inhospitable area, both before and after
the Last War. The going rate on ghost rock
around most of the West is $10 an ounce
but there’s enough of it here to reduce the
price to $8 an ounce.
ENCOUNTERS
The Great Maze was a fairly inhospitable
place before the Last War, but since the
bombs dropped it’s a nightmare region.
Burning deposits of ghost rock send
toxic clouds into the sky, the highways
once connecting the various communities
tumbled into the waters with the end of the
world, and a variety of horrors openly lurk
in the canyons and channels now that the
Agency and Texas Rangers are no more.
California is one of the worst places for
road gangs this side of the Mississippi. The
main reason is the ghost rock that can still
be mined in the Great Maze. Road gangs
need ghost rock to make spook juice for
their cars. Since most gang members are
way too lazy to mine the stuff themselves,
they just hang around the source and wait
for somebody else to dig it up. Then the
road scum run them down and take it.
Black Rain (page 95): Black Rain douses
THE GREAT MAZE (LAND)
the party. 1d20 Result
1–4 No Encounter
Blood Wave (page 165): The party
5–8 Road Gang
encounters a deadly wave of crimson gore.
9–10 Walkin’ dead
Croakers (page 167): A hunting party of 11 Highway Patrol
3d6 evil fishmen led by a shaman is out 12–13 Toxic Cloud
to raid a nearby human settlement. They 14 Croakers
try to capture folks alive and drag them 15 Black Rain
underwater to drown, but won’t venture far 16–17 Road Orcs
from the water’s edge. 18 Shraks
19 Ghost Rock Miners
Ghost Rock Miners: The posse finds a
20 Trader Caravan
group of 3d20 ghost rock miners either in
a typical mine (if on land) or hanging from
the side of a mesa (if on the water). They
are lightly armed, but may have sentries
THE GREAT MAZE (SEA)
posted to guard their claim. There’s one d20 Result
guard for every 10 miners. Use townsfolk 1–4 No Encounter
(page 195) with their trade skill being Mining 5–8 Maze Pirates
and a heavy weapon for every five guards. 9–10 Maze Dragon
11 Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol: Operating out of
12–13 Blood Wave
a hid­den base up in the foothills of the
14 Croakers
Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Highway
15 Black Rain
Patrol cruises the major highways looking
16–17 Salvagers
to stomp road gangs and help people
18 Shraks
in trouble. Most patrols consist of four
19 Ghost Rock Miners
vehicles, mostly large sedans or muscle
20 Trader Caravan
cars highly modified with armor, guns, and
turbo-charged engines. They aren’t real
cops, but they sure have put a dent in CA’s
road gangs. Use the statistics for raiders
(page 194). Road Orcs: The Road Orcs are one of
the largest gangs in the west. This gang
Maze Dragon (page 177): If traveling
of ugly mutants has around 200 members
along a waterway or near one, the party is
and is based out of Shan Fan, but Silas
attacked by a Maze Dragon. If inland, the
has invited them into his territory around
posse is attacked by 2d6 (2d10 in SoCal)
Vegas. Out on the road, they’re most likely
walkin’ dead instead.
in groups of 30 to 50 at any one time. The
Maze Pirates (page 194): A group of majority ride motorcycles, but they have
3d10 waterborne pirates man a variety of a decent assortment of larger vehicles as
watercraft, usually small dinghies but with well. Their leader, Red Fang, drives a heavily
some jet skis for the more daring. modified sport-utility vehicle. The Highway
Patrol is offering 600 bullets and the Law
No Encounter: The posse encounters
Dogs have posted a 1,000 bullet reward on
nothing of significance.
Red Fang’s sizable noggin.
Road Gang: The posse is attacked by a
Salvagers: A group of waterborne
gang of wasters mounted on an assortment
scaven­gers who make their living
of beat up pick-ups, cars, and motorcycles.
salvaging equipment from sunken vessels
There are three raiders (see page 194) for each
is encountered. Treat them as raiders (page
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194), but they are willing to trade items they
have found (1d3 draws on the Scavenging
Table, page 102).
Shraks (page 167): Shraks are another
kind of monster folks sometimes report
fighting alongside the croakers. They look
something like a humanoid shark, only
tougher. The posse encounters a wandering
hunting party of 1d6 of these merciless
humanoids.
Toxic Cloud (page 95): A cloud of death
approaches the heroes.
Trader Caravan: A convoy of 2d10
transport vehicles along with 2d4 outriders
in pick-ups or motorcycles is spotted ahead.
Draw 1d4 cards and consult the Scrounging
Table to see what they have besides normal
goods.
Walkin’ Dead (page 187): A shambling
group of 3d6 walkin’ dead stumble upon
the posse.
THE CANYON CAUSEWAY
The Canyon Causeway (Interstate 3) was
built back in 2015 as a joint venture between
the governments of the US and CSA and
was a marvel of engineering. An enormous
series of bridges and roadways, it extends
out into the Maze and connects most of the
larger mesa towns with the mainland.
An exact map of the Causeway would
be inaccurate the moment it’s printed as it
changes constantly. Most figure about 600
miles of the original 800 are intact, but with
numerous breaks due to battle damage,
disrepair, or Maze Dragons.
Gangs frequent the Causeway and set up
emplacements to collect tolls, and where
there are large, road-wide breaches, shuttle
services with cranes transport vehicles for
$50 each and passengers for $10.
One permanent ferry is north of Purgatory
where the entrance ramp was knocked
down during the Last War. Entering the
Causeway from this area requires the fees
above, but at least that shuttle station is
stable and reasonably friendly to strangers.
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Despite the roadblocks by groups such as
the “Causeway Collective” (who use tanks
for their emplacements!), the Causeway is
the best way to travel if one has a working
vehicle.
THE FREE AND HOLY
CITY OF LOST ANGELS
Fear Level 5, population 2000
Reverend Grimme founded the Church of
Lost Angels right after the Great Quake of
1868. In the mid-1870s, he declared it a “Free
and Holy City” modeled after the Vatican.
That didn’t last long though. In 1880, the
good Reverend and his most loyal followers
were killed when a flood of Biblical
proportions leveled the city around 1880. If
you’re interested in the entire story, check
out The Flood for Deadlands the Weird West.
The short version is Grimme was one of
the first servitors—a servant of Famine. He
kept the people of the Maze hungry so he
could control them; and ate the ones he
couldn’t! Eventually, a party of unnamed
heroes figured out how to put him down
and did so—by levelling Lost Angels.
The church stayed flat for a while, and
the nearby town of Perdition rose on the
peaks overlooking the ruins. That lasted a
while, then a new “City of Lost Angels” rose
closer inland. The remaining congregation
built black obsidian walls around the inner
city and kept mostly to themselves for the
next two centuries.
When the Last War really got hot, both
the Northern and Southern Alliances stayed
clear of the Holy City of Lost Angels. Then
came Judgment Day. Miraculously, everything
inside the walls was left untouched, even
though scores of city busters leveled the
civilian sprawl that had grown up around it.
Lost Angels suspiciously survived
Judgment Day, but any sign the church
was in cahoots with the Reckoners was
dispelled soon after when Famine rode out
of the burning Maze. The Horseman was
accompanied by endless legions of faminites
and laid siege to the inner city.
 Famine’s army finally breached the walls
only to be met by a tremendous gout of
searing white flame from above. It blasted
the citadel into ruins and triggered a massive
earthquake that dropped the sanctum and
the surrounding city 10–15 feet. The ocean
roared in and filled the crater. What little of
the city that survived the city busters was
finished off for good.
As the roiling water settled, the Reckoner
walked out of the ocean, which remained
forever after bloody and thick above the
sunken sanctum. Famine’s fabled horse was
gone and was never seen again, but Famine
herself staggered eastward, causing blight
and starvation wherever she passed.
The Harvest
Around the end of 2096 there was a mass
exodus of faminites and walkin’ dead from
Lost Angels. While they attacked those who
were in their path, most of the deaders just
up and headed east. What no one realized at
the time was that Famine was summoning
her minions to the climactic battle with
Raven in Colorado. Of Famine herself, there
was no sign.
LA Today
The holy blast in 2081 snuffed out the
ghost-rock storms, and today none remain
around the ruins of LA. Pretty much the
whole city is under varying depths of water.
In some places, it’s only waist deep, and
that’s where most people live. Stilthouses
sprang up where the water wasn’t too deep,
and those permanent structures acted as
little magnets of civilization.
People moored houseboats nearby, as
well as shacks and lean-tos built onto
simple rafts. Soon, folks started to build
floating docks and boardwalks in between
their homes, and eventually these grew
together into floating villages, called ’hoods,
that covered two or three old city blocks.
Lost Angels is filled with them now, each
one running as its own community. There
is some cooperation between the various
’hoods, but each one mostly looks after its
own.
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Some ’hoods are xenophobic and meet
visitors with weapons drawn. Others
are more open. These latter types act as
floating bazaars, attracting wanderers from
all over SoCal and further abroad, and
some manage to grow into thriving little
settlements.
New ’hoods spring up from time to
time, and those that manage to survive
the various threats posed by other ’hoods,
scavengers, and monsters manage to carve
out a territory of their own.
The Dead Pool
Fear Level 6
This area is a Deadland, but the Holy Fire
that blasted Famine and killed her horse
also cleared away the ghost storms. The
area where the Cathedral stood is now
called the Dead Pool by the locals.
The water over ground zero has turned to
blood, and it swirls in thick clots, spiraling
gently over the spot where Famine and her
horse were struck down. Folks don’t live
there, and very few even go to that area
to scavenge, though there’s plenty worth
salvaging down under that blood-dimmed
tide.
A variety of relics the Church collected in
its years of existence lie beneath the blood.
Some of these items are technological and
some magical. The bones of Famine’s horse
also lie below. There are a lot of bodies
lying under those waters, and some bloats
(page 187) and walkin’ (swimmin’?) dead rise
up from the depths to attack salvagers.
Along with the undead horrors, there
are those who scavenge the scavengers
themselves, the most brutal of whom are
a gang called the Lakers of Rock Island
Prison (see below).
Rock Island Prison
Fear Level 5
Despite being flattened by bombs on
Judgment Day, the prison fared better than
a lot of the city. It’s still above water, for
one thing, jutting out like a crumbling
mountain of steel and concrete. The largest
and best organized of the LA gangs is a
group known as the Lakers, who run in the
fastest boats in Lost Angels and operate
out of the ruins of Rock Island Prison.
The Lakers have converted the sub-levels
of the prison into living quarters, with the
old cells now acting as barracks for the
scavenger gang. The group has also built
up a massive hangar complex that juts out
into the water. They use it as a docking
bay and repair facility for their boats, and
prey on scavengers diving down into the
sunken ruins.
Unbeknownst to the gangers of LA, the
Lakers are what remains of the old Church
of Lost Angels. All of them are either
priests or members of the Guardian Angels,
the Church’s old armed expeditionary force.
They were organized by Father Walker
Blake after the Big One, with the express
purpose of protecting the sunken relics of
the Church from scavengers.
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This is why they nearly exclusively prey
upon those who would come to rob the
Dead Pool of its sunken treasures. Blake
believes it’s his mission to keep the relics
where they are, for he has seen in a vision
that it is the relics that keep Famine from
returning and wiping Lost Angels from the
face of the earth. To that end, the Lakers
have a network of informants throughout
the ’hoods who tell them of any expedition
that seeks to recover artifacts from the
Dead Pool. They attack the intruders and
try to subdue them if possible. Murder is
not acceptable to Blake; however, violence
in response to violence is another matter.
Upon defeating an enemy, they strip
them of weapons and whatever equipment
the Lakers currently have need of, and
return any relics to the deep. Any bodies
are disposed of, and any prisoners (in the
event of a subdual) are returned to one of
the ’hoods.
Blake firmly believes the relics now keep
Famine at bay, and doesn’t believe the
Reckoner was defeated after the Harvest.
That means he’ll do whatever is necessary
to keep the relics exactly where they are.
Local Monsters
Croakers and shraks raid the ’hoods from
time to time, either pulling folks down into
their lairs or just killing people. The Maze
has always had its monsters, and after
the Last War, some of those monsters got
worse.
Squids bigger than Rock Island swallow
entire ’hoods whole. Schools of electric
eels surround and fry boats. Patches of
carnivorous seaweed like waterborne
tumble­bleeds, living toxic oil slicks that
smother anything in the water, and worse
can be found in and around Lost Angels.
Feast or Famine—Mostly Famine
Food is scarce in Lost Angels. Some
’hoods have gardens, some grow their stuff
in hydroponic labs. Most ’hoods get their
food by fishing. Net fishing is practiced
locally, and some folks head out into
the open sea to fish. Still, even with the
hydroponics and the fishing, there really
isn’t enough food to go around.
 That means most folks in the area are
hungry the majority of the time. Most get
enough food to keep them alive, but not
enough to stop the hunger. Some don’t even
get that much. The constant level of hunger
in the ’hoods acts as bait for faminites, who
mostly come out of the area of the Maze
called Purgatory.
THE GRAND LIBRARY
Fear Level 3, population 100
This is the home of the Librarians. They
hole up in a well-protected complex of
buildings on the outskirts of Sacramento.
Some of the buildings are used as barracks
for the Librarians. The central building, an
old bank, contains hundreds of data slugs
filled with every subject one can possibly
imagine. The slugs are kept in the bank’s
vault and protected by armed guards at all
times.
The Head Librarian is Marcus Liebowitz,
a softhearted man who founded the order.
The chief of security, a Ravenite named
Muriel Redwing, is a hard ass who is the
reason the Library has such great security.
Using the Library
The Librarians don’t allow visitors into
the library. Posses can, however, request
information from them, and they’ll assign a
young librarian to research it. This can cost
anywhere from $10 to $1,000, depending on
how much time it takes them. If a character
pays to have a question answered, the
Marshal should just give them whatever
information she cares to. A Librarian
character may access the library herself,
making an Investigation roll to find any
information sought (the Marshal should
apply a modifier based on availability). Each
roll takes six hours; half that on a raise.
The Library also has a communications
room and a transmitter capable of reaching
ComSat about half the time, but that’s
better than the rest of the world. This is
only available with special permission
from Liebowitz, and that usually requires a
favor. The Librarians also buy books, data
slugs, and occasionally even stories. Pay is
anywhere from $10 to $100. A very few rare
textbooks have brought in $1,000 or more.
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The Librarians also collect tales of
heroism in the Wasted West with a long
range goal of collecting the stories together
someday and publishing them to bring hope
to the survivors. They pay about $20 a story
if they ring true. They also buy palmcorders
taken from fallen Librarians for $50.
LYNCHBURG
Fear Level 4, population 750
Lynchburg is an old mining town in
the middle part of the Maze. It didn’t get
any bombs during Judgment Day and so
survived relatively intact.
The town’s main business is as a supply
depot and stopping-off point for salvagers
and ghost rock miners, with spook juice
refineries running day and night. The
people here don’t get many visitors, so they
welcome outsiders more than most places.
It’s a good place to replenish supplies and
hire a guide to help find whatever it is a
posse is looking for.
Lynchburg has a good harbor, an old US
Navy yard, and a well-stocked marina at
water level, and a $25 elevator ride gets you
up to the city on the mesa top.
In the city itself one can find St. Francis
Medical Center, the closest you’re going to
find to a modern hospital in all of the Great
Maze. All in all it’s a convenient center for
Maze-based adventures. Your posse can
purchase supplies and rest up here for a
reasonable price as long as they keep their
noses clean. Sheriff Vonda Wright has no
compunction about tossing troublemakers
off the 100-foot mesa and into the sea if
they don’t behave.
MOVIE TOWN
Fear Level 3, population 500
Since the 1920s the suburbs outside
Lost Angels have been home to the North
American movie industry. Technology
advanced in leaps and bounds since the
start, and around 2020 they stopped using
actual film and started using magnetic
digital rods called slugs to record their
epics (but they’re still called “films’).
 Before the Last War, some cities had the
new Sensoround Megaplex Theaters where
they wired a customer into the seat so they
could feel, smell, and taste the slug as well,
but these never really caught on except in
certain “adult” markets.
The place where most of these epics
were made was just outside Lost Angels in
a series of massive studio lots. Some were
in NorCal, others were just over the Mason-
Dixon Wall in SoCal. Collectively, the lots
contained about half a million workers. Most
of the workers lived in squalid apartments
right on the lots. The rest commuted in
from the surrounding towns. The movie
stars lived in deluxe high-rises in Star City,
an exclusive, heavily guarded area between
the movie lots.
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When the two countries were at peace,
movie stars, directors, crews, and the like
were able to pass back and forth fairly
easily. That all ended in 2078 when the US
Agency found out renowned director Emille
DeSalonto was actually a Confederate agent
who was putting subliminal messages in
his Sensoround movies.
During the War, both governments closed
the borders and contracted directors to
create stirring propaganda films designed
to educate soldiers, increase enlistment,
and ensure there was no sympathy for the
other side.
Movie Town Today
Star City didn’t catch a city buster but
it was heavily bombed. All those gorgeous
high-rise condos were turned into piles of
gorgeous rubble during the Last War, but
at least living there doesn’t make a waster
glow in the dark.
When things settled down, a group of
surviving filmmakers regrouped in Star City
and started making movies again. They’ve
rebuilt a few of the smaller buildings on
the western outskirts and even elected a
mayor—“the Director.”
Movie Town exists by trading slugs
and viewers with towns across the West
in exchange for food and supplies. Slugs
usually cost $500 and are the coin of the
realm. Home-size players (monitor included)
go for $100 as the filmmakers figure a town
with a player has to buy films. You can sell
slugs to the town for $100 if they already
own a copy (most folks like to have backup
copies), and $500 if they don’t. Salvaged
players sell from $10 to $50, depending on
their condition.
The slugs are delivered by private
couriers or sold to trade caravans looking
to sell them for a profit elsewhere. Some of
the more established towns also show the
films in old theaters for about $10 a seat.
Movie Town has a small local theater for
preview screenings of the latest slugs. Most
of the old sets are still out there around
the ruins of Star City and vary from a
replica of Old Tombstone to a Depression-
era Chicago street to a reproduction of
New York’s Times Square to the surface of
the moon. Most of them came through the
bombing unscathed and only took a little
abuse from fallout or ground effects.
Most of the townsfolk are filmmaking
flunkies such as camera operators, gaffers,
costume designers, zombie wranglers, or
set makers. The various film crews are
always looking for fresh faces for their
movies, which can be an adventure in itself
for those posse members of a thespian
persuasion.
The rest of Movie Town is made up
storekeepers, bartenders, traders, and their
families. They’re fairly successful, so you’ve
got a good chance of finding important
common goods for sale here. Just expect to
pay a 10–20% mark-up over standard prices.
The Director
The “mayor” of Movie Town is called
the Director. He always wears bandages
wrapped around his head to hide his face,
and usually has wide sunglasses over his
eyes. This is because he’s actually former
US President John Romero. Now he’s making
heroic movies to inspire people, to give them
hope, and maybe erode fear throughout the
West and help defeat the Reckoners.
The Pits
The Pits are where those extras who get
shot up in the movies or play the walkin’
dead come from. The crew sealed off about
200 yards of an old, underground storm
drain with cement and left one hatch open.
It’s barred and locked most of the time, but
when a couple of zombies or casualties
are needed on a shoot, wranglers come out
with long pole hooks and snag a few. There
is usually a minimum of 25 zombies in
the Pits, and desperate wasters can make
money capturing deaders and selling them
to the studio.
OLD PROSPERI
Prosperi is a blind man who lives in the
ruins of an old Spanish mission in the hills
overlooking the ruins of LA. The locals
say he can heal better than a Templar or a
Doomsayer.
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Prosperi was one of the young priests
sent into the hills when the Bishop of LA
lured Famine into his trap. He was blinded
when he saw the column of holy fire blast
the Horseman. Prosperi also had a close
encounter later with a servitor who calls
himself the Bishop. That creature found
the young priests and slaughtered most of
them before retreating into the Maze.
The priest couldn’t see what happened,
but he knows a group called the Lakers
showed up and ran it off. They helped him
set up in the mission and told him the
remnants of the Church would protect him.
This is a great clue for a posse looking to
interact with the Lakers. (see page 118)
Prosperi has d6 in all his stats except for
his Spirit, which is d10, and a d12 Faith. His
only power is greater healing, with 15 Power
Points.
PURGATORY
Fear Level 6
The first thing you should know about
the Maze is that a good chunk of it is on
fire. A city buster intended for Lost Angels
“missed” and landed north in a spot once
known as Manitou Bluff, a haven for
criminals, madmen, and reprobates. The
blast cratered the mesa and set the ghost
rock inside on fire. Within a few hours, the
fire had spread outward, and today it burns
about 100 miles in each direction except
landward. The locals call the area that’s
still burning “Purgatory.”
You’ll never find darkness in Purgatory.
There’s a sickly glow to everything,
sometimes from radiation and sometimes
from burning ghost rock. Everything is
cast in shades of orange and green, even
the daytime sky. The fire burns along the
seams in the middle of mesas, eventually
causing them to collapse. It also burns in
vast caves underwater, causing the ocean
to roil and cook anyone who thinks the
water will save them from the heat. Since
most of Purgatory is water or rock, there
are plenty of places a person can stay out
of the flame and even tolerate the heat.
What they can’t survive are the fumes. That
stuff poisons a person within a few hours;
and that’s assuming they stay away from
any really thick concentrations.
Every hour spent in this miserable place
requires a Vigor roll at –2 to avoid a level
of Fatigue which cannot be replaced until
the victim gets to fresh air or dons a gas
mask (recovering a level in 10 minutes) or
receives some sort of magical aid. Besides
the environmental dangers, there is an
abundance of Maze Dragons present and
worse. On the plus side, there’s a load of
undiscovered loot waiting to be discovered
Many small towns and camps lie almost
totally undisturbed since the bombs fell. A
posse who finds a way to survive the heat,
noxious fumes, boiling water, and monsters
can become quite wealthy.
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This region also has some of the greatest
manitou activity in the Wasted West. When
a hero kicks the bucket, the player draws
three extra cards to see if she returns
Harrowed.
SHAN FAN
Fear Level 6, population 100+ (Cult o’ Doom)
Shan Fan was founded in the wake of
the Great Quake of 1868. All the ghost-rock
mining in the area back then (starting with
the Ghost Rush, as they called it) assured
Shan Fan’s early years were prosperous ones.
This prosperity continued into the 20th and
21st centuries, and when the bombs fell, it
was the most populous city on the West
Coast. It got nuked proportionately, so not
much survived.
A few years later, a large number of
mutants took up residence in the ruins
inside the maelstrom. The muties are a
nasty bunch and loyal to the Cult o’ Doom
(when it suits them). Their leader is a big
brute who calls himself Shanghai, who
grew an extra head out of his shoulder, and
though it’s dead, he claims it makes him
twice as smart as anyone else. He’s always
surrounded by a pack of at least a dozen
muties, though he “rules” over a tribe of 100
or more.
SOCAL
Southern California was facing a serious
overpopulation problem before the Last War
started. The CSA didn’t have a lot of space to
cram all their Mazers in. Then the Mexican
army moved through. They didn’t dare cross
over into Deseret because the Mormon’s
Nauvoo Legion was one of the smallest but
best armies in the world, especially with
Hellstromme’s leftover machines backing
them up. So the Mexicans were forced to
fight the Confederate forces in the narrow
strip that was Southern California.
As you can imagine, having all the
firepower of two high-tech armies in such
a small space was devastating. When
they were done, the whole area from the
coast to the Las Vegas/Utah border was
a pockmarked ruin of bomb craters and
rubbled cities.
 Thanks to the huge population that got pleasure vehicles, with six retro-fitted
in their way and died, SoCal has more than helicopters and ten small boats armed
its fair share of walking dead. A lot of these with machine guns and rockets launchers.
are the tough kind—former Mexican and
It’s pretty easy to get onboard and mingle
Confederate soldiers. These veteran walkin’
even if a waster is not a kanger. There’s
dead are well-armed and armored, but
been enough monkey-business on the
these hordes mostly rise up at night. Travel
island (before and after the bombs) to give
during the day is safer unless travelers go
a wide range of looks and skin tones to the
into large ruins and other close quarters.
6,500+ population. There’s also enough flow
of people on and off the island that new
TURTLE ISLE faces aren’t unusual. Just stay away from
the Turtle Isle guards (raiders armed with
Fear Level 3, population 6,500
Tokarev Machine Pistols and the Martial
Turtle Isle was a floating casino before the Arts Edge).
Last War. It stayed in international waters—​
Turtle Islanders take outsiders (i.e., the
or at least claimed to—​ often enough to
posse and just about everybody else) for
avoid getting closed down by the USA or
whatever they can get. That means all
CSA. A lot of espionage between the two
prices here run 120% or more above those
nations took place on this “neutral ground”
quoted in the Gear section. However, they
as well, so they were inclined to leave it
also respect a good haggle, so every success
alone.
and raise on a Persuasion roll reduces that
After the war, the floating island remains by 10%.
and has embraced even more vice and sin
under the command of a Laotian who
calls himself “Manchu.” Manchu is a typical
maniacal despot, feeding his enemies to
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
the sharks that trail the city to feed off its
Idaho, Oregon, Washington
garbage and sending his warriors out to
raid the land for supplies and women when Fear Level 4
they don’t feel like paying for them. Mazers
The mountains of the Northwest grow
know how bad Manchu is, but most won’t
deathly cold in the winter. Survival is always
pass up an opportunity to taste Turtle Isle’s
a trial, especially the quest for food. When
wicked temptations anyway. Pleasures of
the chips are down, some humans engage
the flesh are too hard to come by these
in the horrible practice of cannibalism
days to pass up the opportunity.
to survive. Should a hero ever resort to
Raiding settlements, however, is nothing cannibalism while in the Great Northwest
compared to Manchu’s secret arrangement (for any reason), he must make a Spirit roll
with the croakers. He cut a deal with to avoid becoming a wendigo. He suffers a
these sea-devils a long time ago. These cumulative –1 penalty to this roll for each
underwater abominations are the source act of cannibalism, and a –2 if this occurs
of most of Turtle Isle’s high-end defensive during the winter.
systems, which the croakers strip off sunken
If he fails, the fallen hero becomes
warships and trade with Manchu. In return,
a wendigo under the Marshal’s control.
Turtle Isle provides the fishmen with human
There’s no way to get the hero back, so go
captives. Not just for sacrifices to their dark
ahead and tell the player to make a new
goddess, but also for experimentation.
one. For details on these nasty critters, see
Turtle Isle may look lightly defended, but the Monsters & Misfits chapter (page 157).
Manchu managed to salvage quite a few
The roads are so bad in this area all
military-grade weapons from a sunken USA
Driving rolls made for Vehicle Fatigue (see
destroyer after the bombs fell. Its helipads
page 56) are made at –2.
and onboard marina serve as staging
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THE GREAT NORTHWEST
1d20 Result
1–3 No Encounter
4–5 Road Gang
6–10 Wendigo
11 Wolflings
12 Toxic Cloud
13–14 Overgrown Town
15–16 Anti-Templar Band
17 Spotted Owls
18 Hellstorm
19 Black Rain
20 Trader Caravan
ENCOUNTERS
Roll on the Encounter Table every 12
hours the posse spends traveling in this
area, and once when they set up camp.
If the group spends a significant amount
of time camped in one location, roll once
every 24 hours and ignore any results that
call for a specific terrain type.
Anti-Templar Band: An Anti-Templar
(use Templar statistics from page 86 but
carrying a battle axe) and his warband of
2d6 wanna-be black tabards (use raider
statistics on page 194 but give each an axe
along with firearms) is encountered by the
posse.
Black Rain (page 95): Black Rain douses
the party.
Hellstorm (page 95): Fiery clouds rumble
in toward the posse.
No Encounter: The posse passes a
peaceful twelve hours.
Overgrown Town: The abandoned
buildings that made up this town have
collapsed and become overgrown with
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weeds and vegetation and are now little
more than green mounds along the side of
the road.
Road Gang: The posse encounters
2d12 raiders (see page 194) mounted on an
assortment of vehicles and armed with a
wide array of melee and missile weapons.
Spotted Owls: Environmentalists saved
the spotted owl from extinction about
a hundred years ago, but the Reckoning
has changed them into creatures of terror.
They swoop in by the scores and slice
at their victims with razor-sharp talons
before attacking with their beaks. Consider
attacking owls a flying swarm (see Savage
Worlds).
Toxic Cloud (page 95): A cloud of death
approaches the heroes.
Trader Caravan: A convoy of 2d8
transport vehicles along with 1d6 outriders
in pick-ups or motorcycles is spotted ahead.
They are willing to trade with friendlies.
For availability of goods, treat them as a
settlement that’s size equals 100 x number
of transport vehicles.
Wendigo: The posse encounters a
wendigo (page 189) looking for fresh meat.
The wendigos are moving down from the
mountains into the prime game areas
where survivor settlements are. It’s almost
like they’re slowly hunting the hunters to
make it harder for the nearby ‘villes to get
meat.
Wolflings (page 189): A pack of 2d6
wolflings has taken up the trail of the
posse. If the posse is mounted in vehicles,
the pack follows them and attacks at their
next rest stop.
BOISE, IDAHO
Fear Level 3, Population 400–500 (50–60
permanent residents)
First off, the Boise Maelstrom is slightly
less dangerous than most because the
Templars have lowered the Fear Level
within it. Whenever anyone crosses through
the storm, he makes a Vigor roll at –2 (no
penalty for Templars). Mutations are suffered
only if snake eyes are rolled, and Templars
never suffer mutations.
Boise is the home of the Templars. The
heart of the order is the Temple where the
Grand Master holds court. Other structures
that make up the wasteland knights’
home are the Hall of Heroes, where fallen
Templars are laid to rest, the Hospice, where
petitioners can stay, and the Barracks.
A solar powered water tower provides
clean, safe water to the downtown’s
inhabitants. While the Templars are a
grim and dour lot, the streets in between
their buildings are filled with an almost
carnival-like atmosphere. There’s a large
“black market” in smuggled goods (like
Templar relics) flowing through the town.
Most of these are sold quietly in the scores
of booths, carts, and kiosks that fill the
town square and surrounding streets.

CORVALLIS, OREGON
Fear Level 3, Population 4,000
Before the Last War, this city was renowned
for being one of the most “green” cities in
the US. Most residents biked to work, its
energy came from hydroelectricity, solar,
and wind farms, and organic farms in the
surrounding area filled the local markets
with produce. The city was also a center of
innovation, technology, and research, with
The Library has a branch office here,
Oregon State University and a variety of
and the Chamber maintains an outpost that
computer businesses. The city was spared
liaisons with Oregon State University and
being bombed on Judgment Day, although
the 1-I super computer. It is run by a council
the ensuing chaos, plagues, rioting, and
composed of representatives of the faculty
depredations by roving gangs reduced the
of OSU, the merchant’s guild, the town
population by over 90 percent in the first
militia, and 1-I.
five years.
The town’s armed forces include a troop
Luckily for the remaining inhabitants,
of bicycle cavalry as well as heavy weapons
the city’s pre-War green nature worked
teams armed with junker weapons. Talk in
to their advantage, and it managed to
the settlement centers around the southward
maintain a fairly high standard of living
expansion of the racist samurai of Portland
under the leadership of a supercomputer
and how they can be stopped. A despot
named 1-I. Power comes from the remaining
named Holnes attempted to conquer the
hydroelectric dams, on which Corvallis
city in the early 2090s only to be thwarted
stations garrisons and technical staff to
by the militia and the famous tale-teller
maintain the flow of power.
known only as Teller.

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LEAVENWORTH, WASHINGTON
Fear Level 5, Population 50
This old tourist town sits high in the
Cascade Mountains. Built to resemble a
Bavarian village, Leavenworth has several
gasthausen, multiple breweries, and a
variety of restaurants. Its Nutcracker
Museum had a collection of more than
5,000 nutcrackers, ranging from the cute to
the macabre but has since been looted.
Although most people here are from the
US, a fair number of real Germans, veterans
who were deployed to America during
the Last War, moved to Leavenworth after
Judgment Day.
The isolated town is under constant
assault by wolflings and wendigoes. When
the town’s greatest defender was slain, the
burgermeister, Harold Pinter, sent emissaries
to both the Templars and the Iron Alliance.
He pays mercenaries who wander into
town generously for each wendigo ($500) or
wolfling ($25) head.
NEW JEROME, IDAHO
Fear Level 5, Population 25
New Jerome is a small collection of
ramshackle buildings at the edge of Jerome,
Idaho. It’s a tiny community of only 20 or
so people and thousands and thousands
of potatoes. They have recently contracted
with several trading convoys to export their
produce to the outside world, although with
the demise of the Convoy their product
won’t be as widely distributed as they had
originally planned.
There’s a reason the inhabitants of New
Jerome don’t want their location revealed to
the outside world. The potatoes they traded
to the Convoy aren’t your ordinary spuds.
The town is run by 20 walkin’ dead and
five Harrowed under Pestilence’s control,
victims of the diseases that swept the town
after Judgment Day.
While the vast majority of spuds grown
on the hundreds of acres around the town
are perfectly normal, some of their tubers
are grown in the rich soil that covers the
mass graves of the plague victims. These
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special ’taters carry a supernatural infection,
causing a deadly combination of cholera
and dysentery in those who consume them.
Those who eat a diseased ‘tater and fail
a Vigor roll at –4 contract a Long-Term
Chronic, Majorly Debilitating disease (see
Disease in Savage Worlds).
Anyone who dies from the “potato
disease” automatically comes back as a
plague zombie. Anyone caring for these
patients can also catch the disease,
requiring a Vigor roll at –2 to avoid the very
contagious supernatural bug.
Since the inhabitants of New Jerome mix
these special spuds in with the ordinary
potatoes they trade to passing travelers,
getting one is purely random, which makes
it difficult to trace back to the source.
THE RAIN FOREST
Fear Level 5
Olympic Forest is a lush rain forest
famous for its towering trees, exotic
vegetation, and rare animals. It’s still there,
and in fact, it’s expanding daily. The “Living
Jungle,” as a local tribe of muties calls it, is
moving eastward at the rate of 10 feet a day,
due to the warmth provided by Mount Saint
Helens and Mount Rainier.
When those two volcanoes blew their
stacks, thanks to the supernatural influence
of the Reckoning, the low-lying areas got
warmer and the high mountains got colder.
The jungle grows like kudzu, and anything
and everything in its path eventually gets
covered. It should stop on its own when
it hits the foothills of the Cascades, but
everything in between will be covered if it
gets that far. The jungle is filled with killer
bees, giant insects (treat as swarms from
Savage Worlds), and most of all, carnivorous
plants.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Fear Level 6
The city of Seattle and the surrounding
areas caught several ghost rock bombs on
Judgment Day, with several reserved just for
Macrosoft Corporate HQ out in Redmond
(guess someone in the Confed Stratcom
didn’t like Windows 2075).
The downtown area is a jumble of
concrete and flooded underpasses. The
drains and city sewers clogged quickly
with debris from the bombs and the
constant Seattle rain turned the city into a
nightmarish Venice.
SEATAC
Fear Level 6
SeaTac took a direct hit from a tactical
ghost-rock bomb meant for the Air National
Guard base at the airport. The surgical
strike left most of the facility intact and
the radioactive particulates washed away
relatively quickly.
A former US Air Force pilot named
Victor Germaine has restored enough of
one runway furthest from the maelstrom
to operate a small passenger jet service. He
charges $2/mile per person, and can range
about 1000 miles in good weather.
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It’s expensive, but well worth it if a posse
needs to get somewhere quick. Germaine
can land anywhere there’s a decent stretch
of highway or small municipal airport.
His Learjet can carry 10 passengers (use
statistics from Savage Worlds if needed).
The Space Needle
Fear Level 6
The supernatural effects of the ghost rock
bombs are evidenced by the Space Needle
and the park surrounding it being intact
even though it’s within ground zero. Other
structures inside the storm are demolished
as you’d expect, but for whatever reason,
the park remains standing.
The Reckoners wanted this structure
to remain intact, because the inner core
was designed as a giant “supernatural
energy collector” by a mad scientist named
Victor Steinbrueck. The plan was to gather
this energy and broadcast it out to sites
hundreds of miles away. If successful, power
would have been beamed to everyone with
a receiver and Steinbrueck would make a
bundle in the process.
 Unfortunately, Steinbrueck went mad, as
mad scientists do, and threw himself from
the top of the Space Needle. Steinbrueck’s
ghost was sucked into the partially
completed energy-transmitter core, which
turned the tower into a “fear” generator.
The area around the Space Needle became
a Deadland sometime in the mid-1980s. The
Agency stepped in and closed the area
soon after, citing “safety concerns.”
After the bombs fell, Steinbrueck’s ghost
escaped the core. It now flits about the
tower like a poltergeist which can only be
put to rest through an exorcism (which is
really only possible if a Blessed from the
Weird West is around) or by tearing out the
inner core of the tower.
Tearing out the core is a problem because
large parts of it comprise the tower’s radio
transmitter, the only one in the area that
can contact ComSat (see page 10).
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The tower is inhabited these days by a
paranoid junker named Clausenstein. The
few people in the area who have seen him
call him “Needle Hands” because of the
syringes he wears on his leather gloves. He
needs certain drugs to stay alive, and keeps
the stuff in syringes built right into his
gloves. That way when he forgets to take
his medicine and has a seizure, the drugs
are right there at the tip of his fingers.
Use junker stats (page 193) with a focus
on chemical reagents. Needle Hands can
be useful on occasion, especially with
his knowledge of alchemy. He’s weird and
creepy, but if posses can get to him and
convince him they’re friends, he’ll help out
in return for some useful parts for his many
experiments.
He is also one of ComSat’s friends.
Through it, he (or anyone else who is a
friend of the satellite) can access billions
of terabytes of information to aid him in
his experiments. Clausenstein is working
to complete the spirit collector under the
guidance of Steinbrueck, who believes the
only way it can escape limbo is for someone
to complete the transmitter and “send” it to
Heaven. He’s wrong, of course, but he’s a
stubborn spirit.
Steinbrueck’s Poltergeist
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d8, Spirit
d10, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d12, Notice
d10, Taunt d10, Stealth d12+4
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 5
Special Abilities
• Hurled Object: Str+d6
• Ethereal: Immune to normal attacks.
Magic items, weapons, or supernatural
powers affect him normally. If Steinbrueck
takes any damage, he fades through the
tower and hides somewhere normal folks
can’t reach.
• Improved Rapid Recharge: Polter­
geists recover 1 Power Point every 15
minutes.
• Telekinesis: Although poltergeists can
throw objects as per a standard ghost,
they can also wield weapons, throw
 people around, slam doors and such like.
They have the telekinesis power, use Spirit
as their arcane skill, and have 20 Power
Points for this purpose only.
• Weakness: The Deadlands Reloaded
exorcism power or tearing out the core
of the Space Needle will permanently
destroy this creature.
Spikers
Lurking in the eaves of the Space Needle
are things the local survivors call “spikers,”
which hurl themselves at anything that
walks into the park. They look like a
cross between spiders, sea-urchins, and
porcupines, but made out of metal, and can
clear about 200 yards out from the Needle
without too much trouble. The spikers were
created by Needle Hands to protect him
against the constant intruders looking to
loot the tower, but aren’t fully under his
control. The poltergeist often takes control
to keep the junker from being disturbed in
his work. When left to their own devices,
the spikers are cruel and ever-watchful
hunters who twist their creator’s orders to
fit their spitefulness.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4 (A), Spirit
d4, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Climb d12, Fighting d8, Notice d8,
Stealth d10
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 6
Gear: Thrown objects (Str+d4)
Special Abilities
• Armor: +1
• Bite: Str+d6
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; no extra damage from called
shots; immune to disease and poison.
• Fear –1: These creepy beings cause a
Fear check at –1.
• Poison –4: The bite of a spiker causes
paralysis for 1d20 minutes for those who
fail their Vigor roll.
• Wall Walker: Moves at normal Pace
when walking on metal surfaces thanks
to their electromagnetic feet. Each one
can carry up to 250 pounds of weight
while doing so, even upside down.
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The Wizard’s Tower
Ages ago, there was a big game company
in downtown Seattle that produced a very
addictive card game. Their success allowed
them to build a 15 story game center
covering several city blocks. Unfortunately,
Federal officials found out the trading cards
were laced with an addictive mind-control
drug and closed the company. When the
feds put the company out of business, their
mammoth game center got bought by a
group of anonymous investors and renamed
the “Wizard’s Tower.” Using patented
Dempseyworld animatronic robots, it was
turned into a “virtual experience” where
folks could feel like they were in real
adventures set in any genre.
Judgment Day ended all commercial
enterprises, but a being called the
“Gamemaster” has taken up residence in
the tower and uses the high-tech equipment
to turn the complex into a much more
dangerous game. He pays local mutie tribes
to capture “players” for his entertainment,
then forces them through his adventures
by threatening to kill innocents (preferably
someone close to the party) if they don’t
comply—and in character to boot!
The Wizard’s Tower gives Marshals an
opportunity to run posses through most
any type of adventure, such as those in
our other Savage Worlds settings. The parts
of the other creatures, characters, etc. are
played by either violent mutants dressed
up to play the part or Dempseyworld
robotic constructs. The posse shouldn’t
feel bad about fighting their way through
the “actors.” The bad guys are truly bad
and want to prove to the Gamemaster
they should play a larger part in the next
scenario. Whatever adventure you run here
should feature an occasional glimpse of
the Gamemaster (through vidscreens of
course—he never gets close to the action).
As for the Gamemaster himself, he
died back at the turn of the millennium.
Originally the owner of the company that
built the game center, he secretly put
together a new firm to repurchase the old
building after the feds closed it and turned
it into the Wizard’s Tower.
 The undead Gamemaster can do most
anything he wants within his tower. He’s
combined the best prewar technology with
junker science and maybe a little black
magic to create worlds in which even he
can’t always tell what’s real. He’s not truly
evil, just a little nuts. He’s also something
of a ham. He loves to sneak into his games
to play a bit part. He just can’t resist the
cameo as long as his guests aren’t killing
everything they come across.
The Shogunate of Portland
Fear Level 5, Population 2,500
This political entity was originally a
small settlement based out of a Japanese
steakhouse in Portland, Oregon. After
Judgment Day, the owner, Iso Fujima,
donned an ancient suit of armor from the
collection in the lobby of the restaurant,
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picked up his family’s ancestral sword,
and called for all survivors of Japanese
descent to come to the fortress and serve
him. Within a few years the old restaurant
became quite a stronghold, complete with
villages and rice paddies beneath the
hilltop fortress and a cadre of samurai to
protect the populace.
A few months before the Harvest, Daimyo
Fujima was overthrown by Suki Alvarez, the
captain of his guards, with the help of a
Combine Grey Hat team. A fervent hater of
all non-Asian people, she declared herself
Shogun and quickly launched a war of
expansion into the fertile Willamette valley,
killing or enslaving all who stood before
her as far south as Salem before running
into organized resistance at Corvallis (see
page 125).
Shogun Alvarez put out the word to
kangers from up and down the Shattered
Coast and her lands have swelled with
those of Asian ancestry. A fervent hater
of “round-eyes,” the new ruler lines the
roads with the crucified bodies of any
non-Asians she can catch. Any who remain
in her conquered lands are treated worse
than slaves in her new world order.
Most of the Shogun’s Asian subjects aren’t
so intolerant. They know they have a good
thing going so they don’t cross their ruler
openly, but they usually sell rice or other
goods to travelers who pass through the
village quietly. But woe to any natives who
are caught “consorting with the enemy.”
Alvarez’s brutal war of expansion caught
the eye of War just before the Reckoner
was trapped by Hellstromme. She attained
servitor status just before the Harvest, and
plans to continue her war of expansion in
the summer of 2098. Suki’s veteran samurai,
the Dragons, use soldier statistics (page 194).
They’ve trained themselves in the use of
the katana but use H&K MP-20 SMGs when
convenient. They wear infantry battlesuits
modified to look like ancient samurai
armor.
Shogun Suki Alvarez
Suki is a cold, relentless killer concerned
only with gaining more and more power,
land, and servants.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d10, Spirit of time camped in one location, roll once
d10, Strength d10, Vigor d8 every 12 hours and ignore any results that
Skills: Fighting d12+2, Intimidation d12, call for a specific terrain type.
Notice d10, Shooting d8, Stealth d10
Black Hat Patrol: A platoon of 3d10 of
Charisma: –2; Pace: 6; Parry: 12;
Throckmorton’s troops mounted in several
Toughness: 6
trucks and SUVs. Use soldiers from page 194.
Hindrances: Arrogant, Bloodthirsty, Mean,
Overconfident Black Rain (page 95): Black Rain douses
Edges: Alertness, Acrobat, Ambidextrous, the party.
Assassin, Block, Combat Reflexes, Improved
Dogs o’ War (page 170): An Alpha dog
Martial Artist, Mighty Blow, Trademark
with his pack of 2d8 undead hounds.
Weapon.
Gear: Enchanted Katana (Str+d10, +2 to Dust Storm (page 95): A massive dust
Fighting rolls, +2 Parry) storm approaches.
Special Abilities:
Glom (page 174): A pile of the many bodies
• Coup: Suki’s essence grants super­
generated by the Last War is looking to add
natural defensive ability. The warrior
new recruits to its mass.
counting coup gains +1 Parry.
• Invulnerable: As a servitor, Suki can Gorestorm (page 175): The travelers see a
only be killed by a weapon wielded by the gorestorm heading their way.
man she overthrew, Daimyo Fujima.
Hellstorm (page 95): Fiery clouds rumble
in toward the posse.
HIGH PLAINS No Encounter: Nothing bothers the
posse.
Colorado, Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Road Ragers: These bozos are a typical
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming road gang (of raiders from page 194) that
happen to have an endless supply of the
Fear Level 4
combat drugs Rage and Slo-Mo, thanks to
Since the Harvest, much of Iowa and a member who was a chemist at Miltech
Kansas has been overrun by the undead
hordes that once shambled on the east
bank of the Mississippi. A huge host was
still heading west when Raven ended the
battle of Denver and burrowed under the
Rockies with his great worm allies. Once he HIGH PLAINS
disappeared, they lost their impetus to head
toward the Rockies and began randomly ENCOUNTER TABLE
wandering those areas in a broad, tapering
1d20 Result
swath from the Bloody Muddy to Denver. In
1–3 No Encounter
the past 8 months, they have slowly diffused
4–5 Glom
outward in groups of varying sizes.
6–7 Black Hat Patrol
8–11 Walkin’ Dead
ENCOUNTERS 12 Black Rain
13 Toxic Cloud
Besides the inhospitable environment
14 Road Ragers
and general desolation of the region, there
15 Dogs o’ War
are a number of other things your heroes
16–17 Gorestorm
may encounter while in the High Plains. Roll
18 Dust Storm
on the Encounter Table once for every eight
19 Hellstorm
hours the posse spends traveling in this
20 Slave Caravan
area, and once whenever they set up camp.
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Pharmaceuticals before the Last War. The
gang drives mostly stock vehicles in sorry
states of repair and uses personal hand
weapons in combat.
Slave Caravan: Decked out with gold
chains around their necks like some
pre-War gangers, these dregs of society
provide the Combine with the bodies it
needs to function. These Chain Dogs (use
Raider statistics from page 194 armed with
clubs, riot control grenades, and bean bag
grenades) have 2d20 slaves in tow and are
usually heading towards Denver with their
catch.
Toxic Cloud (page 95): A cloud of death
approaches the heroes.
Walkin’ Dead (page 187): 3d6 walkin’ dead
(in Kansas, this will be 2d6 veteran walkin’
dead armed with firearms).
NEW BILLINGS & WESTERN
NEBRASKA
Fear Level 4; population 500 in Billings,
50–100 in smaller settlements
The Neo-Luddites were founded by Avis
Quinlan, a car salesman before the war,
who came to believe modern technology
was the root of all evil, and specifically
anything made after the Reckoning is
tainted.
Avis began his crusade in the ruins of
Billings, Montana, in 2092, and it didn’t
take long for him to find an audience for
his anti-technology gospel. Within a few
months he had nearly 100 followers; and
within a single year he had almost 500
disciples. Today, almost all of the survivor
settlements in western Nebraska belong to
the Neo-Luddite movement.
To these folks, any technology that was
developed after 1863 is sinful because it
may be tainted by the manitous’ influence.
Junkers are considered the servants of
Satan, and practicing junker magic is a
stoning offense. Merely possessing junker
technology calls for a severe flogging,
which many don’t survive. A second offense
automatically calls for stoning.
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The Neo-Luddites have commissioned
the most fervent of their believers as
witch hunters. These fanatics normally
travel in pairs, and can be encountered
nearly anywhere in the Wasted West. They
search out junkers and those using junker
technology and purify them with torture
and flame. Treat these wanderers as soldiers
(page 194), but their faith gives them 15 Power
Points and access to the powers armor,
dispel, smite, and stun (cast with their Spirit
die). They use Springfield muskets and Colt
Dragoon pistols (see Savage Worlds), as well
as crossbows and swords.
DENVER, COLORADO
Fear Level 6; Population 2000 (500
Combine, 1500 slaves)
Denver is the home of the Combine.
The city itself is surprisingly intact, having
been hit on Judgment Day by high air-burst
neutron bombs which did little structural
damage, followed by a fast-moving, highly
lethal virus which killed 98% of its victims.
With 99% of the population dead within
days of the end of the world, wide-scale
looting didn’t occur, so aside from the
ravages of time and the Black Hats, the
city is a treasure trove waiting to be looted.
Unfortunately, there’s a little thing called
the Combine in town.
The Harvest, combined with Raven’s
undead horde and its wormy allies, hurt
the Combine badly. Throckmorton’s forges
and foundries suffered heavily in the
Iron Alliance’s bombardment of Denver.
Thousands of Black Hats and hundreds
of Red Hats perished before the walls
of Junkyard, on the long retreat through
the Rockies, and in the ruins of Denver.
Hundreds of automatons of all models
were destroyed or disabled, as well as many
of the cyborgs in Throckmorton’s ranks.
While dead Black Hats are easy to replace,
raptors, automatons, and other automated
troops are not.
Repair crews are busy trying to get the
smelters back on-line, but none of the
Green Hats know exactly what they’re
doing and spare parts are scarce. They’ve
begun a concentrated effort to find slaves
with engineering experience and “promote”
them to Green Hat status in exchange for Camp Freedom, by the old Sager Reservoir,
repairing and expanding the Combine’s houses the Combine’s slave labor force.
metalworking capabilities. Most work in the fields in an old suburb
called Lafayette, raising crops for the rest of
Throckmorton’s remaining assembly lines
his troops. It’s easy for these poor folks to
are starved for high-tensile metal to rebuild
escape into the ruins of downtown Denver,
these forces. Combine teams of Green Hats
but it’s nearly impossible to get further.
are scouring the wastes as far away as the
Despite the losses to Raven’s horde, the
Great Maze to find salvageable ghost steel.
open fields surrounding the Compound are
For now, the factories have cranked out
constantly patrolled by raptors, although
automatons with shiny new armor made
this is one of the few places one finds
of flimsy material, which Throckmorton
these flying terrors these days.
named “The Vengeance Brigade” (page 158)
and ordered into the ruins as a show of A gleaming new compound was built
force against the Resistance. Their numbers in the HI complex during the spring by a
now stand at 150 of these shiny constructs. force of heavy construction bots. Under
the supervision of Charles “the Butcher”
Raven’s forces also managed to break
Barkley, a select few Green Hats operate a
into Camp Freedom and chow down on
new cloning center and abattoir, nicknamed
the Combine’s slave pool. The Denver
Doublemeat Palace.
Resistance also took this opportunity to
strike, freeing those who hadn’t become Inside the complex lies a horror of
brain donors. Camp Freedom was basically giant cloning vats where, via some
emptied out, leaving the Combine with no seriously demented junker science, fully
slave workers for food production. mature animals are grown in days. These
weak-limbed, undeveloped cows are
This led to serious food shortages for
then processed through an efficient but
the Combine forces during the spring and
gruesome “assembly line of death,” a series
early summer of 2097. There were rumors
of conveyor belts, whirling knives, lasers,
of cannibalism among both the few
and “juice” sluices that turn them into
remaining slaves in Camp Freedom, as well
hamburger in less than a minute. And yes,
as at some of the Black Hat watering holes
Marshal, exhausted slaves, Black Hat rejects,
in the downtown area. Throckmorton’s
and captured Resistance fighters end up in
Chain Gangs have been working overtime
the tubes of mystery meat churned out by
to restock their labor pool since the Battle
Doublemeat Palace.
of Worms, and now, combined with Dr.
Barkley’s food complex (see below), the
famine has been averted. Downtown Denver
Downtown Denver is more of a night­
The Combine Compound mare than it ever was. Not only do you
have to contend with Black Hats, feral
The automated factories are on the
automatons, automatons on “training and
outskirts of Denver, encompassing over
weapons calibration exercises,” and the
50 square miles of gleaming structures
general nastiness found in a Deadland, but
of glass and steel. A wall around the area
now many of Raven’s horde who didn’t
consisting of old cars and trucks, chainlink
accompany him underground wander
fences, cargo containers, piles of rubble,
through the streets of the ruined city.
and whatever else they could find served
to repel Raven’s hordes during the Battle of With a general shortage of automatons,
Worms. Throckmorton’s forces tend to cluster in a
few well-protected areas these days, leaving
The Compound is where Throckmorton’s
the majority of the ruins to the undead
robots built barracks and other facilities for
tourists from beyond the Mississippi. Not
the higher-ranking humans, and sits on the
only are traditional walking dead found
shores of Lake McKay.
here, but also cast-offs from the Reckoner’s
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bosses were vacuumed up by the Harbinger.
Basically, Marshal, if your fevered mind can
stat it, you can give it a home in Denver.
The Resistance
The band of survivors and escaped
prisoners who eke out a living in the ruins
and sewers of Denver have found life even
harder since the Battle of Worms. With the
increase in nightmare creatures left over
from the clash between the Combine and
Raven, the Resistance finds it even harder
to move about the city by day or night.
And with Throckmorton too busy to worry
about them, these partisans are not being
supplied with cast-off weapons they used
to surreptitiously get from the Combine to
provide his automatons with real combat
experience.
Despite this, the Resistance still actively
attempts to sabotage the Combine’s efforts,
and still provides aid and intelligence to
the Iron Alliance, such as the fact that the
Combine has been heavily recruiting techies
into the ranks of the Green Hats.
DEADWOOD, SIOUX NATIONS
Fear Level 6; Population 200 (Cult of Doom)
Deadwood was the home of the Ravenites,
a bubble of technology in the tech-dead
zone of the Sioux Nations. A mag-lev rail
line and two highways running east and
west ringed by totems allowed high speed
travel into the city, but these corridors are
filled with the rusted hulks of cars, trucks,
and crashed trains.
Walking in isn’t exactly quick. Coming
from the west, the posse has to cover nearly
120 miles to reach the city. The eastern
route is double this. The best rate the group
can make through the wrecks and rubble is
about 10 miles a day on foot. That means it
takes about 12 days to reach the city from
the west and 24 days approaching from the
east.
Status High and Low
Confined to an area about nine miles
long and four wide, Deadwood was literally
built from the mud up. By Judgment Day,
Deadwood existed on many levels. The
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bottom consisted of dirty, rubble-strewn
streets that never saw daylight and housed
the arms and ghost rock bomb factories..
Above that were fabulous casinos run by
technology-loving Ravenites. Above that
sat the 50-story rooftop penthouses of
the ultra-rich. These were connected by
walkways to keep the rich from having to
mix with the poorer folks down below.
Just before Judgment Day, everything
came crashing down. A few days before the
bombs fell, Raven walked into downtown
Deadwood and started blasting the tangled
maze of buildings. (Some of those who
dwelled on the bottom cheered—before
they were crushed by thousands of tons
of rubble.)
The survivors fled into the wilderness
and watched their city burn. A few days
later, a city buster landed smack on what
was left. Ironically, Raven’s attack had likely
saved lives—at least of those who had fled
to the hills.
Today, the elevated highways, towering
skyscrapers, and rooftop walkways lie in
piles of rubble. A pack of night terrors live
in the few high-rises still standing, and
restless spirits haunt the ruins. The New
Sioux, a violent tribe of mutants loyal to
Silas and the Cult of Doom also lives in the
debris. For whatever reason, they blame the
Old Wayers for their fate and hunt Indians
for both food and sport.
There’s a fortune in salvage to be had
in the warehouses and bunkers beneath
Deadwood’s streets. The problem is
get­ting to it and back again. Besides all
the supernatural baddies waiting for the
heroes, there’s the problem of physically
transporting the goodies out.
DEVILS TOWER
Fear Level 4
Within a swirling maelstrom is a massive
natural wonder of red stone standing
almost 600 feet tall—at least the part that’s
left. The rest lies in 100-foot-tall piles
around the base. This massive geological
wonder is located in the Sioux Nations, in
northeastern Wyoming.
 The tower had been inhabited for
hundreds of years by a group of alien cross-
breeds (as in alien beings from space), and
contained a portal to the Hunting Grounds
used to power their secret facility.
When the Indians enacted the Great
Summoning ceremony that created the
anti-tech zone across the Sioux Nations,
the area directly around Devils Tower was
unaffected, allowing the aliens to maintain
their technological edge.
As word leaked back to the US
government about the nature of the tower,
a group of US scientists entered it in the
mid-2000s and established a research
facility. Unfortunately, Confederate spies
learned what was going on and made sure
it received a ghost rock bomb on Judgment
Day. The bomb blew off the upper half of
the structure but left most of the lower
levels intact. That’s where the crossbreeds
were kept, and the overhead rock protected
them from the worst effects. Those that
didn’t die by the storm were mutated, and
the only thing worse than a mutant is a
mutant alien.
Back in 2090 a group of junkers and Law
Dogs moved into Devils Tower, pushed the
alien mutants into the lower depths of the
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complex, and even rigged up machinery
to draw power off the portal. From
this well-supplied and fortified base of
operations, the Law Dogs cleared much of
the surrounding area and actually lowered
the Fear Level.
In early 2094 a man known as the
Prospector and a group of Harrowed
emerged from the Hunting Grounds here.
Seven months later, the junkers sent an
agent back in time in an attempt to change
the past and defeat the Reckoners.
Unfortunately, blow-back from the time
travel device washed through the upper
levels, killing many of the junkers and
their Law Dog allies. In the years since, the
crossbreeds have broken out of the lower
levels and now run rampant through the
area.
The crossbreeds live in the ruins, fighting
off devil bats, rattlers, and horrors from the
portal. The crossbreeds always respected
technology—now they worship it. When the
chance to gather gadgets presents itself, the
mutants rally violently to the cause. Some
still have the fantastic tech of their past but
such relics are few and far between, so they
settle for human tech (and sometimes meat).

Alien Crossbreed
The aliens were once more diverse,
but these days all that are left are the
crossbreeds—rejects of alien and human
DNA abandoned by their parent race. (If
you’re interested in the big backstory, check
out The Last Sons for Deadlands Reloaded.)
Crossbreeds stand anywhere from three
to five feet tall (averaging a little over four),
and they weigh 100 to 200 pounds (averaging
about 145). Their skin is green and scaly like
a lizard. Their teeth are long and needlelike.
Their eyes are almost all black, with some
small variations in tone and color. They have
long, sharp claws on their hands and feet.
They’ve got faces not even their mothers
could love, like a cross between a Mexican
dragon and the backside of a monkey.
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Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4, Spirit d6,
Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Stealth d6, Swimming
d6, Tracking d6
Pace: 5; Parry: 5; Toughness: 7 (1)
Gear: Crossbreeds carry clubs (Str+d6), and
rarely (1 in 6) a stun stick. The weapon does
Str+d4 damage, but anyone hit must first
make a Vigor roll at –4 or be Shaken.
Special Abilities:
• Armor 1: Scaly hide.
• Claws/Bite: Str+d6
FORT BRIDGER, WYOMING
Fear Level 3; Population 200
Originally established as a waystation in
southwestern Wyoming back in the early
1800s, Fort Bridger grew into a town a few
decades later and was almost a city when
the Last War came. The war damage to
Fort Bridger was conventional, not nuclear,
so the survivors of the area rebuilt it into
an actual fort once again. It benefits from
a level headed citizens’ committee and
frequent visits by Law Dogs.
Just like in the days of old, they trade
goods with travelers and provide protection
against several bands of bloodthirsty
mutants who prowl the surrounding
wastes. Basic supplies are there at listed
prices, but some of the “independent”
dealers who sometimes set up shop on the
parade ground are only good for cheap and
suspect goods.
These days the forces of the Combine
are looking to Fort Bridger as a possible
outpost, and groups of scouts have been
infiltrating the town with an eye toward a
take-over.
THE FREEMEN
Fear Level 4 in most settlements;
Population 30–200 per settlement
Scattered across the hills of Montana,
these survivalists and right-wing “patriots”
who feared the Northern government before
the Last War built a variety of bunkers
and strongholds in anticipation of the
Apocalypse. When Judgment Day arrived,
the Confederates, fearing these heavily
armed anti-government forces, struck with
nukes at the largest Freeman settlements.
There aren’t many Freemen left, but those
who are still around are well-armed and
angry. They’ve got tons of heavy weapons,
ammo, rockets, and even a few anti-tank
missiles. They’re mostly paranoid nutcases,
and opted to sit out the Harvest despite
deputations from both the Iron Alliance
and Throckmorton.
The Freemen are divided up into
“families.” If there’s a leader to be found,
it’s definitely Michelle Stockton. She was
once a housewife, but after her husband
died fighting mutants a few years back, she
took over and has proven to be one of the
toughest fighters in a group of ferocious
warriors. She’s real quiet, but when she
speaks, everyone listens.
HELLTOWN
Fear Level 5; Population 250
This town looks out of place in the
wastelands. For one, it has no walls to
keep out marauders. For another, every
building in town is painted red. Strangers
are welcome here, and are free to buy, sell,
and otherwise trade what they can, as well
as relax in the town’s only bar, the Bull’s
Eye. But anyone who gets out of hand
finds every capable person in town acts
as the law, and they’re all well-armed with
pistols, shotguns, and rifles. The bodies of
those who misbehave are swinging from
the old light poles outside of town. Mayor
Tawana Wilkins runs this town with an
iron fist and—much to the applause of the
Templars—the people back her up.
Helltown can be a useful place to rest
and resupply, with prices as listed and
availability as if it has a population of 1500,
as long as the posse keeps their noses
clean.
MALL OF AMERICA, MINNESOTA
Fear Level 4; Population 275 (1,550 for
scavenging checks)
This massive four story mall in St. Paul,
Minnesota, had over 500 stores with over
four million square feet of retail shopping
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madness, including an amusement park and
one of the largest shark aquariums in North
America. It survived the Last War relatively
intact, and local mobster Anthony “Fat
Tony” Mulachi made sure it wasn’t looted.
He and his boys moved in to the mall just
a few hours after the Apocalypse, shot the
few looters who were already inside, and
claimed it as their own.
These days, Tony and his feared gang of
50 goodfellas run the Mall of America like
a pre-war paradise. The mall has defensive
installations on the roof as well as junker-
designed automated sentry guns hidden
in the rusting hulks of cars that fill the
enormous parking areas outside.
Paying the $20 entrance fee transports
a brainer back to a happier time. The area
inside the mall is lit with fluorescent lights,
plants line the halls, is climate controlled,
and there’s even Muzak playing in the
background!
Currently there are 40 storefronts open,
organized by category. You’ll find guns in
one area, electronic parts in another, and so
on. Tony gets new items from anyone who
brings them in, as well as the many trade
caravans that go back and forth from here
to Junkyard (after taking a long northerly
route around Denver). Spook juice, ammo,
and bullets of all calibers run 150% over
list price, while anything else is marked up
25% more than normal. There’s no haggling
in MoA, and everything is clearly marked
with one set price. There are even five
different restaurants inside, three Italian, a
steakhouse, and a seafood place, as well as
a hotel with electricity and running water
(rooms run $75/night). The Sensoround
Megaplex theater has been renovated and
provides virtual reality experiences for a
mere $25 per show.
The largest indoor amusement park
(before the Apocalypse) as well as an
aquarium provide entertainment for the
denizens of the mall. Sometimes Tony puts
those he doesn’t like in the rollercoaster
without seat belts and sees how long it
takes for the poor saps to come flying out.
The aquarium not only provides seafood
for his restaurant, but the shark tank is an
after-hours source of gruesome amusement
as well.
 Tony and his men leave folks alone while
they’re shopping unless it looks like they’re
loitering. Then he throws them out if they
don’t show they’re buying something.
This place is probably one of the nicest,
safest places in the Wasted West—as long as
you stay on Fat Tony’s good side. Anger him
and a waster either swims with the sharks,
dies on the rollercoaster, or winds up as
the meat in the next spaghetti bolognese.
For that little trick, Tony became a servitor
of Death just before the Harvest.
Fat Tony Mulachi
Tony isn’t particularly deadly on his own.
It’s his leadership and the constant group
of deadly bodyguards who accompany him
that are the problem. (Treat the bodyguards
as five Wild Card soldiers, page 194.
They’re armed with SA XM-40 assault rifles
and Tokarev machine pistols.)
Attributes: Agility d4, Smarts d10, Spirit
d10, Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Gambling d8, Intimidation
d10, Notice d6, Persuasion d8, Shooting d8,
Streetwise d8, Taunt d6
Charisma: 0; Pace: 5; Parry: 6; Toughness:
7 Special Abilities:
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty, Curious, Greedy,
Obese.
Edges: Command, Command Presence,
Hard to Kill, Leader of Men, Natural Leader.
Gear: Tokarev machine pistol (Range
10/20/40, Damage 2d6, RoF 3, AP 1) with
laser sight.
Special Abilities:
• Coup: The hero who counts coup on
Fat Tony gains the essence of his bulk,
providing +1 Toughness. This does come
with some weight gain, but a week or so
of normal struggle in the wastes will take
care of it for most folks.
• Invulnerable: Fat Tony must be eaten
by sharks to meet his final demise.
NEAR WICHITA, KANSAS
Fear Level 6
In the irradiated ruins of Wichita lives
a coven of 13 fierce, man-hating witches.
The group hunts male travelers to the city.
Men who survive their initial attack are
slowly tortured to death, and their “parts”
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are hung around the wreckage of the city.
The witches have mostly cleared out the
ruins for a distance of ten miles of any
living humans, mutant or norm, although
some scattered groups of women eke out a
single-sex existence in their domain.
The woman who leads the coven was a
radical witch named Jasmine Craft. Before
the Last War she prowled the streets of
Wichita as a prostitute, using her powers
to kill men. She survived the bombs, but
died a few months later from the glows,
blaming men for starting the war with her
dying breath.
She returned from death as a true
abomination, and was rewarded by Death
for her evil deeds with a peculiar breed of
female walkin’ dead that can cast spells
just as she can.
Jasmine Craft and her Coven
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d10, Spirit
d10, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d10, Notice
d6, Spellcasting d10 (d12 for Jasmine), Stealth
d8
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 7
• Beguiling: Jasmine and her coven can
appear as beautiful women when they
desire, and they typically use this ability
to lure unsuspecting men to their doom.
This power gives them a +4 Charisma.
• Dagger (Str + d4)
• Fear –2: These creepy undead women
cause Fear checks at –2 to any man who
sees them in their hideous true form.
• Immunity (Males): Male heroes are at
–2 to hit Jasmine with Fighting or Shooting
attacks.
• Spellcasting: These undead have the
following powers: armor, bolt, entangle,
fear, puppet (15 Power Points); Jasmine
also has blast and fly (30 PPs).
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease and
poison.
• Weakness: A male hero who is
romantically connected to a female
character in the posse deals double
damage to Jasmine on successful attacks.
 • Coup: Jasmine’s essence is pure arcane
power. A coup-counter with an Arcane
Background gains +5 Power Points. A
character with no Arcane Background
can choose to take one on their next
advance with the extra Power Points or
immediately gain Arcane Resistance vs.
Black Magic.
SKY PIRATES
The Sky Pirates were once a band of
aerial raiders, scouts, and scavengers. They
joined with the Iron Alliance during the
Harvest and their numbers suffered greatly
from Combine firepower.
Based out of Nocturne Field, a secret
base literally carved into the side of a
Colorado mountain, there were a couple
hundred of aviators, flying anything from
ultralights to Cessnas to the most advanced
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F-40 Tigersharks. Since January of 2094,
their numbers have dropped to less than a
hundred with fewer than a dozen aircraft of
all types remaining.
Several months after the Battle of Worms,
the leader of the Sky Pirates, Dwight Price,
aka Raptor, was killed by a fellow pilot
named Snake. Snake has convinced his
comrades that the Iron Alliance used them
as cannon fodder, and has returned the Sky
Pirates to their roots—aerial raiders who
prey on the weak and helpless.
Nocturne Field was almost fully stocked
when the bombs dropped in 2081 and
still has a few million gallons of aviation
fuel in sealed tanks, along with a supply
of several tons of missiles, bombs, and
guided munitions. Of the original 48 F-40s,
only five survived the battle against the
 Combine and Raven. That’s good news for
the folks of the Wasted West now that the
Sky Pirates have gone bad.

THE SIOUX NATIONS

The Sioux who remain in the area follow
the “Old Ways,” shunning technology and
manufactured goods. Those “Ravenites”
who don’t believe in the Old Ways have
mostly fled due to the anti-technology
zone (see below).
The Sioux are ruled by a council of
elders and wise men called the “wicasas.”
Each major tribe has one, and either he or
his representative sits on the council when
all are called together to rule on important
matters.

THE DAKOTAS
Fear Level 2; Population 10,000
The borders of the Sioux Nations are
closed to those not of Native American
descent. Any non-Indians found inside the
Nations are asked their business. Unless
they have a matter which needs to come
before the tribal council, the intruders are
politely asked to leave. If they refuse, the
tribe’s warriors show them to the border or
bury them, as the situation warrants.
Visitors who can prove they are of Native
SIOUX NATIONS American descent are welcome to stay as
long as they are willing to take the Old Ways
ENCOUNTER TABLE Oath. Willing newcomers are adopted into
one of the clans and become full members
1d20 Result of the tribe. The one exception to this is
1–5 No Encounter toxic shamans. Corrupters are attacked
6–9 Sioux Scouting Party on sight, while caretakers are warmly
10–14 Hunting Party welcomed. Portions of Sioux territory have
15 Dust Storm been contaminated by radioactive fallout
16 Caretaker Toxic and toxic runoff from factories upstream
Shaman of the Nations. Caretakers are welcome
17–18 Buffalo Herd to remain in Sioux lands as long as they
19–20 Horse Herd use their powers to clean up some of this
pollution.
The anti-technology zone created by
the Great Summoning still holds sway in
the Sioux Nations. After about 10 minutes,
pretty much everything that wasn’t made
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working. Weapons, vehicles, and other
high-tech gizmos are obvious targets, but it
doesn’t stop there. Modern combat knives
lose their edge and the blade breaks if
subjected to any stress; backpack straps
continuously loosen and fall off the hero’s
shoulders; waterproof tents leak and the
ropes and poles are easily broken.
Some items may require the Marshal to
get inventive, but the posse should quickly
learn they cannot rely on any item that was
not handcrafted from some plant, animal,
or naturally occurring mineral. Junkers are
near powerless here—neither their devices
(powers) or abilities function.
Since Doomsayers, sykers, and Templars
channel energy directly from the Hunting
Grounds rather than using spiritual
intermediaries, their brands of magic work
just fine.
A character who wants to play a
traditional shaman from Deadlands
Reloaded fits in here, but may find himself
outgunned outside the anti-technology
zone.
ENCOUNTERS
The open grasslands of the Dakotas
give a timeless feeling to those who walk
across their surface. Herds of buffalo and
horses run free, evoking an image of earlier,
happier times.
But there are still dangers. Roll on the
Encounter Table every 12 hours (every
6 hours along the river itself) the posse
spends traveling in this area, and once
when they set up camp. If the group spends
a significant amount of time camped in
one location, roll once every 24 hours and
ignore any results that call for a specific
terrain type.
Buffalo Herd: A herd of d10x10 buffalo.
Use Bull statistics from Savage Worlds.
Caretaker Toxic Shaman: A single
caretaker shaman (page 195) is discovered
communing with the nature spirits.
Dust Storm: A massive dust storm (page
95) approaches.
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Horse Herd: A herd of 2d20 horses.
There is a 50% chance that a few young
braves watch over the horses. See Savage
Worlds for statistics.
Hunting Party: A typical hunting party
has 20+3d20 braves (page 193), 1d4–1 shamans
(page 195), and an equal number of elderly,
noncombatants, and children.
No Encounter: Time passes quietly.
Sioux Scouting Party: Scouting parties
patrol the edges of the Sioux Nations
looking for intruders. A typical scouting
party contains 5+1d6 braves (page 193).
THE BADLANDS
Fear Level 6
The Badlands are a weird stretch of land
filled with tall, jagged ridges, steep cliffs,
narrow chasms, and macabre-looking rock
formations resembling people writhing in
torment deep in the Sioux Nations.
Rattlers, young rattlers, and wormlings fill
the Badlands, while enormous swarms of
devil bats take to the night skies (typically
numbering 5d20 or even more). The only
reason a posse might go here is to put an
end to the worm cult, for this is where all
those wormlings are coming from.
WORM CANYON
Fear Level 5
Since the 1800s, the great rattlers have
been worshipped by a cult of humans led
by powerful priestesses. Unfortunately,
its location within the Sioux Nations
anti-technology zone frustrated every
attempt by the Agency to stamp it out.
After 200 years of a steady diet of human
captives provided by their worshippers, a
whole new breed of queen worm appeared,
able to create human-worm hybrids called
“wormlings”.
Before the Harvest, there were thousands
of wormlings in the Badlands and
elsewhere. Raven’s call to arms emptied the
area of almost all its slimy inhabitants, but
several of the queens remained. The Worm
Cult still ranges near and far to serve them,
gathering up sacrifices for the tentacled
deities.
 No maps exist showing the way to Worm
Canyon. Wasters who follow the Cheyenne
River into the heart of the Badlands and
start looking for concentrations of rattler
young are close to the home of the queens.
A single trail runs through the region near
Worm Canyon, and it’s constantly patrolled
by cultists looking for fresh meat in the
form of lone travelers or wayward miners.
A hereditary priestess always named
Ursula presides over the coven of wormy
worshippers. They sacrifice, cavort, and dye
their skin purple in honor of their “gods.”
Anyone who dies here is dead
permanently. The soul of the victim is
consumed in the process. He cannot return
as a Harrowed, nor be resurrected by any
means. Proof of his eternal damnation can
be found in the hills and cliffs of Worm
Canyon as the image of the victim appears
in the rock over the next few hours.
LOWER MISSISSIPPI
AND DELTA
Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri
Fear Level 5
ENCOUNTERS
The hot, miserable environment of the
Mississippi Delta is not the only thing heroes
have to deal with. The drowned landscape
along the river has given rise to all sorts
of abominations they may encounter along
the Bloody Muddy.
Roll on the Encounter Table every 12
hours (every 6 hours along the river itself)
the posse spends traveling in this area,
and once when they set up camp. If the
group spends a significant amount of time
camped in one location, roll once every 24
hours and ignore any results that call for a
specific terrain type.
Black Rain: Black Rain (page 95) douses
the party.
Dust Storm: A massive dust storm (page
95) approaches.
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Giant Mosquitos: A cloud of these huge
bloodsuckers is attracted to the heroes.
Treat them as a swarm (see Savage Worlds).
Glom: A horrid conglomeration of
corpses shambles forth (page 174).
No Encounter: The posse encounters
nothing of significance.
Pirates: These waterborne scum use
raider statistics (page 194). Traveling in a
variety of small boats and using old
paddlewheels as motherships, groups of
3d10 pirates attempt to swarm travelers on
the larger tributaries with their superior
numbers.
River Leviathan: A dreaded kraken of
the Mississippi takes notice of the posse’s
vessel (page 181).
River Rats: Originally imported from
South America, nutria weigh in at about
nine pounds, have ratlike tails, webbed feet,
and really, really big teeth. Of course, the
mutant nutria, or mutria for short, are much
worse than their prewar cousins. They’ve
gained a few pounds, lost most of their fur,
and have developed a taste for human flesh.
They hunt in packs of 30 or so and breed
like mad. These animals live all along the
banks looking for food. Sometimes they
even follow a wounded riverboat and wait
for it to ground. Then they swarm over it in
scores and chew up the crew. Treat them as
a swarm but increase the damage to 2d6.
Road Gang: The posse encounters
3d10 road gangers (use Raiders on page 194)
mounted primarily in pick-ups, although
they might own one or two motorcycles
with sidecars.
Toxic Cloud: A cloud of death (page 95)
approaches the heroes.
Trader Caravan: A convoy of 2d8
transport vehicles along with 2d4 outriders
in pick-ups or motorcycles (or a large
paddlewheeler with makeshift armor and
several machine guns) is spotted ahead.
They are willing to trade with non-hostile
people they meet. For availability of goods,
treat them as a settlement of size of 100 x
number of transport vehicles or 1d6 x 250
for waterborne traders.
Walkin’ Dead: 3d6 walkin’ dead (page 187),
or 2d6 bloats (page 187) if within two miles of
the Mississippi or one of its tributaries.
THIBIDAUX, LOUISIANA
Fear Level 5; Population 45
This small town 40 miles southwest of
New Orleans would seem fairly insignificant
to a casual traveler. What no one knows
is the Confederate Strategic Oil Reserve
(CSOR) was located in a network of stable
salt dome caverns deep under the surface.
Originally conceived as a way to store
huge amounts of oil during the great ghost
rock embargo of the 1970s, the CSOR has
lain forgotten since the end of the Last
War. While the other three sites that made
up the program along the Gulf Coast all
caught ghost rock bombs on Judgment Day,
Thibidaux was spared, the missile targeted
for it landing far out into the Gulf’s waters.
The pumping stations and equipment
are hidden in ordinary looking houses and
storefronts, and the townsfolk keep evidence
of their buried treasure well hidden from
casual passersby. To passing road gangs,
there is nothing of value in the town, but
under the town hall a chemical engineer
has set up a crude refinery to produce
heating oil and diesel. This tiny usage over
the last 13 years hasn’t even made a dent in
the roughly 227 million barrels of oil lying
1000 meters below the town.
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
Fear Level 3; Population 200
Baton Rouge was inundated by massive
floods back in 2071 when the ground level
dropped 50 feet, leaving it a jumble of
abandoned, drowned ruins and a whole
mess of mosquitoes. A few years after
Judgment Day, Evelyn Reynard founded
Nouveau Baton Rouge on the buildings
still poking out of the river. With the help
of former civil engineer Rupert Tinsdale,
the buildings were connected by swinging
bridges and floating boardwalks made
from steel cables with wooden planking.
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MISSISSIPPI DELTA
ENCOUNTER TABLE
1d20 Result
1–5 No Encounter
6–7 Road Gang (land)
Pirates (water)
8–11 River Rats
12 Glom (land)
River Leviathan (water)
13 Toxic Cloud
14–15 Giant Mosquitos
16–17 Walkin’ Dead
18 Dust Storm
19 Black Rain
20 Trader Caravan
The Miss protects it from threats from land,
and a wall of rubble created by demolishing
outlying buildings makes it hard for
creatures or pirate vessels to assault it.
Most of the town’s population fish or
farm the rooftop gardens. Others try to
renovate and repair surrounding buildings
or prowl the ruins of old Baton Rouge for
salvage.
As long as they stay on Evelyn’s
good side, travelers sleep in one of the
abandoned buildings for free up to three
days, may trade with the warehouse, and
can even watch the bi-weekly movie (they
get slugs from Movie Town fairly regularly).
The town’s recyclers give the town a –2
Streetwise modifier when trying to find an
item in the town’s marketplace.
HELL SWAMP
Fear Level 5
Hell Swamp is well named due to the
omnipresent heat and humidity. Travelers
must make Vigor rolls at –2 every hour or
suffer a level of Fatigue. If a posse insists
on wearing any kind of body armor, the
check is at –4. The water in the swamp
ranges from just a few inches to over 60
 MAMA TIBUTU’S THE CAJUNS
GOODIES Several communities of Cajuns brave the
terrors of Hell Swamp. Some of the smaller
Most of Mama’s voodoo towns are up in the huge cypress trees, each
powers are subtle charms dwelling connected with ropes, boardwalks,
and wards. All of Mama’s and zip lines. Others are built on floating
charms and wards take effect rafts tethered between trees.
immediately. They cannot be
The Cajuns live by hunting giant gators
“saved” for later use. Some
and other swamp critters from wooden
that might be sought by the
canoes and an assortment of old aluminum
heroes (and the price Mama
boats. Houma, one of the more prosperous
charges for casting) are:
settlements, has swampboats converted to
Loa’s Blessing: Keeps away run off methane and trade their game with
swamp mosquitoes, snakes, some of the river settlements further up
and other small creatures for the Miss, like Nouveau Baton Rouge. This
1 week. ($100) is a good place to get a guide to take you
into the lower swamps, by the way. Most of
Remove Curse: Removes
the Cajuns are fairly insular. Some of the
most negative magical or
cruder places full of mutants see intruders
spell effects. It’s the Marshal’s
as meals on two legs.
call if Mama’s magic is more
powerful than whatever
con­di­
tion the receiver seeks KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
to alleviate. ($500)
Fear Level 6
Tibutu’s Talisman: Keeps
Kansas City, Missouri, got hit with an
supernatural terrors from
honest-to-God, 10-megaton nuke. The blast
directly attacking a single
flattened the city and everything within 11
character for 1d4 days, though
miles. There’s a lot of speculation about why
it could push a tree over on
KC got nuked for real. The most popular
them, attack a companion, and
theory is kind of nuts, but it makes more
so on . This takes her a month
sense than anything else. President Bates
to create, and she never has
was a Raiders fan, and they got beat in the
more than one. ($1,000)
last Super Bowl by the Kansas City Chiefs.
Now that’s a fan.
The ruins are filled with low levels of
radiation with pockets of high rad in pools
and other collection points (see Savage
Worlds).

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

feet deep. It’s thick, it’s green, and hides
Fear Level 6, Population 1
what lies beneath. Just walking through
the mess requires another Vigor check at New Orleans took it on the chin during
–2 each hour to avoid Fatigue, and Pace is the bombing. As the largest port in the
reduced to 1/3 normal. Confederacy, it caught more than its share
of the bombs. Worse yet, the bombings,
Besides the water and mud, intruders
combined with the aftereffects of the Baton
into the swamp must contend with toxic
Rouge quake caused the Mississippi to jump
mosquitoes, poisonous snakes hanging
its banks upriver from New Orleans. The
from every tree, and gators up to 60 feet
river now cuts almost due south through
long.
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 The shattered ruins of New Orleans no
longer sit astride the mighty Mississippi.
Instead, a stinking marsh nearly a mile wide
cuts through the remains of the city. The
first two floors of any building are beneath
at least 20 feet of water, the bottom third of
which is pure mud.
The ghost storms cause swirling
waterspouts (1 in 6 chance per hour), and
the ruins of New Orleans have plenty of
monsters like silt demons, giant gators, and
zombies, to name a few. No one lives in
New Orleans these days, but scavengers
are fairly common. They ply flat-bottomed
scows through the flooded city and dive
down into the water looking for salvage.
Like any Deadland, this is fraught with
peril from the nightmares given form in the
ruins.
There is, however, a friendly voodoo
priestess who’s taken over several buildings
in the old French Quarter. Her home, the
fourth floor of an old five-story bank, is
surrounded by charms and talismans
that keep her safe from any supernatural
horrors.
“Mama Tibutu” is well-outfitted and trades
with some of the salvagers who venture
into her domain (see the Mama Tibutu’s
Goodies sidebar). Most importantly, she
has a range of healing poultices, curse
removals and charms to protect a waster in
the swamps. She’ll sell them to a posse if
she takes a liking to them. Those who don’t
treat Mama Tibutu with respect get cursed
by her, gaining the All Thumbs Hindrance
until she sees fit to remove it.
MARDI GRAS, LOUISIANA
Fear Level 5; Population 300
Some survivors of New Orleans banded
together and came up with a unique way to
ignore the world had falling down around
their ears. Pushed on by a delusional reveler
named Rex, the group celebrated…to death.
Now the party continues every night with
Rex as the eternal Grand Master of the
Parade. The parade consists of five still-
functioning floats (of the original dozen)
blasting Mardi Gras music from speakers
hidden beneath long-dead flowers. Rex rules
from an elevate palanquin in the middle.
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The other four floats are driven by enslaved
followers and surrounded by heavily-armed
revelers covered in beads and party hats—
firearms in one hand and bottles of various
alcohols in the other. (The bottles refill each
night as long as they’re part of the parade.)
The party occurs from dusk til dawn.
By day, Rex and his crew sit near-dormant
in an old warehouse nearby. They come
to life the moment they detect potential
new revelers (a group Notice roll versus
a character’s Stealth). They automatically
wake if attacked or interlopers don’t try to
remain silent.
Rex, the King of Mardi Gras
Rex is a strange, speechless man hidden
by a mardi gras mask—beneath which is
the maddened face of a gaunt lunatic. He
is always surrounded by at least two dozen
crazed revelers. Use Raiders (page 194) that are
utterly immune to Tests of Will and fight
to the death as long as Rex continues the
party. They are armed with a variety of
firearms which they occasionally fire off in
dazed celebration, so 1 in 6 are completely
out of ammo.
Attributes: Agility d16, Smarts d6, Spirit
d12, Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d6, Notice
d10, Taunt d12+4
Charisma: +2; Pace: 6; Parry: 5;
Toughness: 6
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty, Delusion (Major:
Believes the world is in a constant state of
Mardi Gras)
Edges: Charismatic
Gear: Mardi Gras Scepter (Str+2d6 as a
melee weapon when wielded by Rex, see
below for further abilities)
Special Abilities:
• Coup: The character absorbs the King
of Mardi Gras’ ability to goad others to
action and adds +2 to attempts to Taunt.
• Invulnerable: Rex serves Famine. He
can only be truly slain if his scepter is
removed from his hands. He may only be
Shaken otherwise.
• Scepter: Rex may target a character
within 24” by making an opposed Spirit
roll. The target must be able to hear the
music or be seen by Rex to be affected. If
the target fails, he joins the parade as a
 across the Mississippi on a reconnaissance
mission. Everything that could go wrong
did. The troops mutinied, killed the leaders,
THE WILD SOUTHWEST and formed a pirate band.
The leader of the mutiny was a woman
1d20 Result
who calls herself Elvira, and she and
1–5 No Encounter
her band of roughly 100 now raid all up
6–7 Road Gang
and down the river, using artillery pieces
8–9 Mojave Rattler
to safely bombard medium or small
10–12 Doombringer
settlements from a distance before going in
13 Toxic Cloud
for their tribute. They don’t mess with the
14 Rad Patch
larger towns, but instead dock there and
15–16 Beaded Horror
trade all the loot they’ve taken from other
17 Desert Gator
places up or down the river. Elvira knows it
18 Dust Storm
wouldn’t take much for the towns along the
19 Black Rain
river to get together and fight her, so she
20 Trader Caravan
picks targets her spies tell her are isolated
or have bad relations with their neighbors.
Elvira’s cautiousness extends to her fleet’s
frequent encounters with river leviathans
and other horrors as well. If there is any
sign of such a creature, the fleet retreats.

THE WILD SOUTHWEST

loyal reveler under Rex’s complete control
and may only be freed if Rex is slain.
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Revelers sustain themselves purely on the
ever-full alcoholic drinks of the parade. Fear Level 4
Without food, most starve to death within
The Southwest has the last major
7–10 days.
accessible oil reserves left on the continent,
which makes it a site of strategic
The River Watch importance. While ghost rock can be used
for fuel and power production, only oil
The Law Dogs once manned a score of
allows for the production of plastics and
outposts along the Mississippi to watch for
other items essential for the rebuilding
a possible invasion of the undead swarming
of civilization. Luckily for wasters, the
on the far riverbank. These men and women
increasing use of ghost rock and the worry
were called the River Watch, but were little
about carbon emissions limited the use of
more than a speed-bump when Raven’s
petroleum products before the Last War, so
horde crossed the river in the dead of night,
the oil fields of east Texas and Oklahoma
covered by a fog that arose for hundreds
still have billions of barrels left in them
of miles along the Bloody Muddy. While
awaiting extraction and refinement.
the vast majority of the deaders headed
west for the Battle of Worms, plenty still
shamble along the river and for hundreds ENCOUNTERS
of miles to the west. No one watches the
The varied environment of the Wild
Mississippi anymore. No one alive, that is.
Southwest means a posse can encounter a
wide variety of people and creatures. Roll
The River Rats on the Encounter Table every 12 hours the
posse spends traveling in here and once
Five years ago, the River Watch, Law
when they set up camp. If the group spends
Dogs, and Templars made an abortive
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one location, roll once every 24 hours and
ignore any results that call for a specific
terrain type.
Beaded Horror (page 162): A strange
lizard is encountered.
Black Rain (page 95): Black Rain douses
the party.
Desert Gator (page 168): The party runs
into a hungry desert gator.
Doombringer (page 170): The posse is
accosted by one of Silas’ Doombringers and
his entourage. He can be accompanied by a
group of trogs or mundane mutants.
Dust Storm (page 95): A massive dust
storm approaches.
Mojave Rattler (page 180): A deep
rumbling presages the arrival of a Mojave
rattler.
No Encounter: The heroes encounter
nothing of significance.
Rad Patch: The heroes have wandered
into an area contaminated with radioactive
fallout. If the group has an active Geiger
counter, they notice the rads immediately.
If the patch is not detected, the heroes
blunder through a high radiation zone (see
Radiation in Savage Worlds).
Road Gang: A road gang of 2d10 raiders
(page 194) mounted on an assortment of
motorcycles, pick-ups, and sedans attacks
the posse.
Toxic Cloud (page 95): A cloud of death
approaches the heroes.
Trader Caravan: A fuel convoy of 1d10
transport vehicles along with 2d8 outriders
in pick-ups or motorcycles is spotted ahead.
They are willing to trade with wanderers.
Gas goes for $10 a gallon, diesel for $8, and
motor oil for $15 a quart.
Fuel Towns
A portion of the Confederacy’s oil rigs
were destroyed during the ghost rock bomb
swap on Judgment Day, but the remaining
ones were quickly claimed and fortified
by survivors. Experienced oil workers
were (and still are) treated like royalty,
and survivor groups warred over chemical
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engineers who could get the refineries
working again. Once the dust settled, what
remained were a handful of well-fortified
towns built around working oil wells and
refineries, most found in a swath of east
Texas 45 miles long by 5 miles wide. All of
these places continue to pump crude oil
and refine it into a variety of fuels and
lubricants.
Road gangs hover around these towns
like flies around a carcass. Some actually
trade for their fuel, but most lie in wait
outside of town for people who have just
topped off their tanks.
Because of this, the roads outside of these
settlements are littered with 13 years’ worth
of rusted wrecks and skeletal remains,
the air smells of sulfur and other noxious
chemicals spewing out of the refinery
stacks, and the towns and surrounding
countryside are covered with an oily grit
from burned-off waste products.
The inhabitants of these places live
under the constant threat of siege. The
loyalties and alliances of the many gangs
surrounding each town change every
day, and the defenders never know when
enough gangs might band together to
completely cut off their outside supplies or
actually assault the town. Since Judgment
Day, most of the smaller fuel towns have
changed hands a number of times. Some
were starved into submission; others fell to
organized attacks.
OIL TOWN, TEXAS
Fear Level 4; Population 2,000
Oil Town is the biggest of the fuel towns.
It’s located in Texas about 50 miles west of
Waco, just north of Confed Route 84. It’s the
most stable of the fuel towns, helped by
the presence both before and after the war
of the 3rd Regiment, 25th Armored Division
of the Texas State Militia, which survived
Judgment Day relatively unscathed.
The oil company workers kept the rigs
pumping and engineers were recruited to
build a new refinery on the site. Soon the
3rd of the 25th was the proud owner of
one of the largest operational oil refineries
in the whole world. Civilian survivors from
the area migrated to the oil fields where
they could be safe under the big guns of
the 3rd’s tanks.
The regiment’s commander, Colonel
Douglas “Tex” Meadows, became the leader
of the largest survivor settlement in Texas.
At present, nearly 2,000 souls call Oil Town
home.
The unit’s combat engineers have built
a sturdy concrete wall around the place
with firing ports for defending troops
and prepared positions from which the
regiment’s tanks can fire while under
cover. The area outside the wall is a maze
of razorwire, mines, and camouflaged
pillboxes. Surrounding the settlement for a
10 mile radius is the Oil Town Exclusion
Zone, a free-fire zone for Oil Town patrols
under the guns of the garrison’s 155mm
self-propelled howitzers.
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The town has two hotels and a
campground outside its walls called
Merchant Field. There are three operational
wells and a refinery inside the town walls,
which operate around the clock. Although
plenty of shipments, guarded by troops
from the regiment, go out to a variety of
settlements throughout the Southwest and
beyond, there is ample fuel for sale in the
town itself. Gasoline goes for $5 a gallon,
diesel for $4, and even motor oil, which
is nearly impossible to come by in some
areas, can be had for $10 a quart.
A six-seat town council handles the
day-to-day details of administering the
settlement. The voting council members
are all elected by the citizens and consist
of prominent traders and professional
politicians. Colonel Meadows’ aide, Major Al
Stark, has a permanent, nonvoting advisory
seat, and the Colonel has veto power over
anything the council decides.
 Since the Harvest and the mutant attacks
in Texas, many members of the Council
have been calling for the annexation of the
towns that form OPEC (see below), a move
that Meadows has vetoed several times.
Discontent with the military governor
among the town’s oil barons is growing,
although the average citizen realizes just
how good they have it in Oil Town.
The regiment is still well equipped with
12 Lee tanks, 18 Stuart armored personnel
carriers, 8 York air defense vehicles, and a
host of military support vehicles, including
self-propelled artillery pieces.
OPEC
A few of the larger fuel towns have
formed a loose economic alliance to try to
compete with their larger neighbor. There
are five principal towns involved in the
Oil Producing Economic Council (OPEC for
short). Three of them, New Nacogdoches,
Tyler, and Scroggins, are in northeastern
Texas. The other two, Durant and Fort
Towson, are in southeastern Oklahoma. A
number of smaller fuel towns come and go
from the alliance, depending on which road
gang has captured their oil well this week.
OPEC members pool their production
together and use their combined resources
to ship their product to other survivor
communities in the area. They target
settlements that have standing trade deals
with Oil Town in particular. OPEC trucks
race to get to these towns ahead of the Oil
Town caravans and sell their fuel at much
lower rates.
During the Harvest, Silas’ Cult of Doom
launched several attacks against the
members of OPEC in an attempt to cut
off the supply of petroleum to the Iron
Alliance. Aided by several infiltration teams
from the Combine, the Cult overran many
of the smaller fuel towns. Mutie attacks
damaged production facilities in Durant and
Fort Towson, and Scroggins was completely
wiped out. A task force cobbled together
from the various OPEC members retook it
but not before Silas’ minions torched the
nearby wells and smashed the refineries.
The alliance would pay good money for
anyone capable of putting out the well fires
whose smoke has blackened the skies of
northeastern Texas for the last six months.
While OPEC is still a going concern, all this
damage has weakened the alliance; perhaps
fatally. Many Oil Town traders cast covetous
eyes towards the wells and refineries of
OPEC, and despite Colonel Meadows’ refusal
to take some sort of military action against
the OPEC settlements, several of the oil
barons have been covertly hiring bands of
mercenaries in a bid to pluck the more low
hanging fruits of the fuel towns.
FORT APACHE, ARIZONA
Fear Level 2; Population 100
The Chamber has set up shop in what
was once a CSA cyborg commando base
high in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona.
The majority of the facility was built
beneath an old Spanish mission to conceal
it from detection by spy satellites. Beneath
the old mission are state-of-the-art labs,
barracks, and warehouses left over from
its time as the home of CEAL Team 1, the
Confed’s premier cybernetic strike force.
These days the grounds inside the
walls of the mission as well as a portion
of the plateau on which it rests have
been cultivated with a variety of crops. A
small herd of goats and cattle are kept in
a sheltered box canyon not far from the
mission, and a well that taps a deep aquifer
allows the facility to be self-sufficient.
Most of the upper-ranking Chamber
members live in the lower portion of the
complex, and about 40 initiates and students
live above ground in the mission itself. The
Tech Guard, a small cadre of 40 troops,
defends the place. All are combat veterans
equipped with the best junker weapons
and equipment the Chamber members can
create (use Soldiers from page 194 armed with
infantry battle suits and SA XM-40 Rippers).
Deep in the heart of the mountain below
the laboratories is a large chamber where
Cochise entered the Hunting Grounds to do
battle with the mountain’s spirit. Only the
highest-ranking members of the Chamber
know this, and that Cochise forced the spirit
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white soldier during their long war. When
he finally died, his passing ripped a small
hole in reality that allows those who are
knowledgeable in the ways of the Hunting
Grounds to enter the spirit world.
DEAD TOWNS
Every now and then, folks come across
a town full of withered, dry corpses with
massive wounds and strange holes all
over them. The walls of the town show no
signs of damage and there are never any
survivors.
This is similar to something in the Weird
West called the “Night Train,” which brought
nosferatu into towns (see the Weird West
Dime Novel Night Train for the whole story).
The cause of these modern day events is
a convoy of tractor-trailers of death that
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make up the “Night Convoy.” Just before the
end of the Last War, some pencil pusher in
the Texas Rangers thought recreating the
Night Train with a modern twist would be
a great biological weapon to launch into
the North. Unfortunately, as with many
biological weapons, this one has come back
to literally bite its creator in the tuchas.
The Night Convoys consist of three
tractor trailers equipped with fusion
engines, allowing them to run for years
without refueling. There are 20 of these
feral vampires per rig: 18 in the back and two
up front. They pull into a sleeping town at
night, unload, slaughter the populace, and
enjoy a feast of blood. That’s why bodies
have holes all over them—because several
nosferatu feed on each victim at once.
All they leave behind are corpses and tire
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DEMPSEY ISLANDS, TEXAS
Fear Level 6
Before the Last War, the Dempsey
Corporation ran a chain of child-oriented
amusement parks in both the US and
Confederacy. Its creator and owner, Dempsey
Wilton, was one of the most well-known
entertainment moguls in the world, earning
his fortune from designing and licensing
cute and lovable characters for computer
games and films. Even before opening
his theme parks, Wilton’s name was a
household word across the globe. Dempsey
Islands was the most popular amusement
park in the CSA.
Built on a series of manmade islands a
half-mile off the Texas coast in the Gulf
of Mexico, the park had its own nuclear
reactor and was staffed by a special line
of entertainment robots based loosely on
Hellstromme Industries’ automatons.
These days the island is controlled by
Wilton Dempsey’s manitou-possessed
head, cryogenically preserved when
the entertainment mogul contracted an
incurable wasting disease. He’s attempting
to boost attendance at the park by
revamping it to make it more exciting—
although a manitou’s idea of excitement
equals terminal terror to most people. A
wandering posse dealt a defeat to Wilton a
few years ago, but it’s hard to keep a good
servitor down and DempseyWorld robots
have been out recruiting visitors to the park
for the last few months.
A monorail line connects each of the
islands of the complex, looping in a
huge circle that begins and ends at the
parking lot and ticket terminal on shore.
An underground network of service
tunnels honeycombs the area, allowing the
park’s inhabitants uninhibited freedom of
movement when toying with their “guests.”
Besides Magic Island, Dempsey Islands
is made up of several other themed areas.
“Cretaceous Park” is filled with animatronic
dinosaurs that hunger for human flesh.
“West World” is a fanciful recreation of
an Old West town, filled with robotic
gunslingers, Indians, and soiled doves.
“Banshee Screams” recreates the planet
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Banshee, allowing the customers to take
on the role of a UN Marine, exploring the
wonders of the Purple Planet and making the
world safe for democracy by blowing away
simulated anouks. “Dempsey’s Movietown
Studios” recreates a variety of blockbuster
movies through rides like Stellar Wars, The
Magic of Dempsey Animation, and Escape
from Cultist Mountain, based on the Agency
raid on the Cult of Atheron in Bonanza,
Colorado back in 1999.
“Pleasure Island” was an adults-only
venue filled with night clubs, bars, and
casinos staffed with both human and
animatronic workers only too willing to
fulfill any needs of their customers. Of
course, being a Deadland, all of these areas
have become horrific, twisted versions of
their original designs. Dempsey’s robotic
minions have become particularly nasty
under its effect, seeming to take perverse
pleasure in the suffering of the humans
they once served.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Fear Level 6
Before the Last War, Houston was a major
oil refinery hub terminal, but was best
known as the home of the world famous
Houston Spaceport and International
Launch Center. Both the Soviet Union and
the United States, along with every nation
with a space program, operated out of this
facility at one time or another. Hellstromme
Industries leased large areas, and it was
from here that the Tunnel was built in
orbit, as well as the ships that discovered
the Faraway system.
When the bombs fell on Houston, the
ghost storms swept through the facility,
killing almost all of the base personnel
where they sat, stood, or slept. Within
minutes, the Houston Spaceport went from
a bustling facility to a massive tomb.
There’s not much left there these days.
Fires from the refineries raged for the better
part of six months after Judgment Day,
laying waste to most of the metropolitan
area. Junkers scavenged most of the
valuable parts left at the spaceport long
ago. What no one has discovered, however,
is the complex lying under the HI facilities.

These underground hangars, laboratories,
and workshops provide a home to Dr. Darius
Hellstromme, aka the Harbinger, when he’s
in town.
NEAR DALLAS, TEXAS
Fear Level 6; Population 30
The ruins of Dallas are virtually deserted
these days. Before the Harvest, a servitor
of Pestilence had refurbished an old
Sensoround Megaplex theatre. Jeremy Kane
used disguised plague zombies to spread
various diseases among the patrons who
got all hot and bothered watching the adult
movies he showed in his theater.
Unfortunately for Kane, Dallas was used
as a rallying point by the Cult of Doom
during the Harvest. A huge force of mutants
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descended on the mall which housed the
Megaplex and put the plague zombies
down. The rampaging horde smashed
Kane’s projector, rendering him vulnerable
to their attacks, and killed him.
The theatre is now home to an extremely
violent group of 30 or so diseased
cannibalistic mutants, and the local
survivors want them eliminated.
GLOBE, ARIZONA
Fear Level 4; Population 1,300
The small town of Globe looks at
first glance to be just another survivor
settlement. But it actually houses the New
United Nations, a group made up mainly
of ex-soldiers of all nationalities with a
sprinkling of non-soldiers who possess
important skills needed by the organization:
computer repairmen, mechanics, and even
a junker are part of the UN.
Formerly led by Colonel Leonardo
Acquistapace, an Italian liaison officer
serving with the Confederate military just
before the Last War, the group changed
command just before the Harvest when the
colonel suffered a stroke, courtesy of his
syker second in command.
This organized group tries to follow the
tenets of the UN and hold with the ideals of
pre-war government, but uses a “hearts and
minds” approach as opposed to the iron fist
method of Throckmorton. Concepts such
as service, duty, and rank still hold very
strongly with this group, and it is this sense
of belonging to a greater whole that has
attracted so many veterans.
The UN has sent scavenging expeditions
into the Phoenix maelstrom for military
gear with which to increase the range of
their “peacekeeping operations.” The rank
and file troopers are dressed in scavenged
military uniforms of various nationalities,
and carry a variety of weapons. They all
wear light blue hats (mostly baseball caps),
and any helmets are painted a matching
blue. All of the hats are embroidered with
the old UN symbol, courtesy of a still
functioning embroidery machine salvaged
from Globe.
 Towns that accept their offers of aid are
protected, while those that turn them down
are left to their own devices. Currently, the
UN forces number around 200 ex-soldiers,
stationed mainly in Globe, with small units
deployed in “peacekeeping” operations in
several smaller survivor settlements in
the surrounding area. They have several
scavenged armored personnel carriers,
along with a single functioning T-12 Lee.
Despite their altruistic intentions, the
group’s new commander has sold them
out to the Combine. Sergeant Major Brent
Rachel decided to throw his lot in with
Throckmorton’s goons after a falling out
with Acquistapace for his failure to devote
more resources to finding and executing
Banshee sykers who took the Oath of
Unity. Rachel, a grizzled earth syker,
views sykers who took the Oath to have
performed an act of treason, breaking the
oaths of service they made prior to leaving
for Faraway to their own governments and
the UN. Rachel hasn’t openly announced
the UN’s new patron, but he is taking his
marching orders from Throckmorton, and
tribute caravans have been making their
way to Denver since the summer of 2097.
His last name is pronounced “rah-SHELL,”
and it really gets his goat when someone
says “RAY-chel.”
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
Fear Level 6; Population 0
During the Last War, Phoenix was
devastated by two battles and a number
of city busters, leaving scores of bodies in
the sun-scorched city. A few weeks after
the bombs dropped, Death passed through
the ruins of the city and raised the Phoenix
dead for his horde.
To this day, Phoenix is crawling with
Death’s minions, making the recovery of all
the military equipment left around the place
by the various armies that clashed there
difficult to say the least. If posses are brave
enough to chance it, decrease the scarcity
of military gear by a level, but treat anything
found as damaged gear due to the neglect
and exposure of 13 years of sun and sand.
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Death’s passage through Phoenix also
marked it in a way that even the Last War
couldn’t. Anyone killed by walkin’ dead in
the city has a 50/50 chance of joining their
ranks in 1d6 minutes.
THE COYOTE WASTELAND
Parts of Oklahoma (The former Coyote
Confederation)
Fear Level 5
The former home of the Coyote
Confederation is a toxic wasteland hostile
to human life. In the 1800s the Great Wasting
opened a massive portal to the Hunting
Grounds through which flowed manitous
and things much worse. This spiked the
Fear level in the Coyote Confederation,
temporarily turning the place into a
Deadland.
Evil spirits stalked the land killing,
maiming, and causing general mayhem.
Fortunately for the tribes, this momentary
Deadland wasn’t strong enough for the
Reckoners to come to Earth, but it did
create a supernatural wasteland, turning
the Coyote Confederation into a blighted
landscape shunned by most nature spirits.
In their absence, hordes of new toxic
spirits rose and warped the land even
further. All of the pollution which had
been secretly pumped into the environment
bubbled to the surface for all to see. The
ground erupted with piles of filth and
bubbling pools of toxic goo; rivers and
streams turned black with corruption, dead
fish covered with oozing sores lining their
banks; glowing clouds of radioactive debris
floated on the winds and lit the skies at
night.
The change wasn’t limited to just the
land. Back during the Great Wasting,
horrid babies were born called Children of
the Dust, and these creatures passed on
their demonic traits to their offspring. On
Judgment Day, those unfortunate enough
to survive the bombs changed as well.
The awful synergy of G-rays and pollution
warped and molded the people into a
horrible mockery of what they once were.
Many died while going through the change

THE COYOTE WASTELAND
1d20 Result
1–5 No Encounter
6–7 Raiding Party
8–9 Toxic Pool
10–12 Toxic Cloud
13 Rad Patch
14 Toxic Eruption
15 War Party
16 Quicksludge
17 Trash Garden
18 Locust Swarm
19 Pale Horses
20 Buffalo
and others went mad, but those who
survived could hardly be called human,
and in fact most folks just refer to them as
the “Changed.”
These days the area is ruled by five
cannibalistic tribes that revere both toxic
spirits and the Children of the Dust as gods.
They are all extremely hostile to anyone
who appears to be “normal.” Their attitudes
toward norms is simple: if the mutants
think they are stronger, they attack; if not,
they go for reinforcements and then attack.
Norms who are killed go in the stew pot.
Those who live serve as slaves until they
die, then they go in the pot. Most slaves
don’t last more than a few weeks.
A would-be mutant king named Blood
Claw has arisen, and is attempting to
unite the five tribes for a crusade against
the norms who live outside the Coyote
Wasteland. The would-be king feels the
same way about Doomsayers as he does
about the non-mutated. He says they are
false prophets sent to lead his people astray
from the worship of their true source of
power, the toxic spirits.
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Silas sent emissaries to Blood Claw a few
years ago when he first heard of the great
mutant tribes of the Coyote Territory. The
mutant leader sent the rad priest’s envoys
back to Las Vegas minus their tongues.
Blood Claw wears them on a thong around
his neck. These Indians don’t follow the Old
Ways, so raiding parties from the Coyote
Wasteland use any firearms they can
scavenge or steal from their victims.
ENCOUNTERS
The general environment within the
Changed Lands is hostile to normal humans.
For each day the posse spends within the
wastes, the heroes must make a survival
check at –4 or suffer a level of Fatigue (this
can cause death if exposure lasts long
enough). This Fatigue can only be regained
by leaving the territory. Snake eyes on this
roll means the brainer takes a wound.
Wasters with gas masks or some other
sort of filtration system add +2 to these
rolls. Fully-sealed armor or environmental
suits add another +2.
Even the Harrowed must make survival
rolls—the chemicals in the environment eat
away at their dead flesh too. Deaders get a
+2 to their rolls, but receive no bonus for air
filters—they only breathe when they need
to speak. They do however get the bonus
for a sealed suit.
This assumes the group has brought their
own supply of food and water with them.
If the heroes are forced to drink the foul
water or eat some of the warped animal
life of the region, they suffer a –6 penalty
(total) to their survival rolls.
Besides the general nastiness of the
environment, there are a number of other
things your heroes may encounter while in
the Changed Lands.
Roll on the Coyote Wastelands Encounter
Table every six hours the posse spends
traveling in this area, and once when
they set up camp. If the group spends a
significant amount of time camped in one
location, roll once every 12 hours and ignore
any results that call for a specific terrain
type.
 Buffalo: There are still buffalo in the is doubled, and it does 2d8 damage. The
Changed Lands—sort of. These beasts look wasters get the standard bonuses for gas
sickly. Large patches of their shaggy hair masks or a wet bandanna (+2 Armor).
has fallen out, their eyes are bloodshot,
Toxic Eruption: The posse is on unstable
and great streams of snot flow from their
ground over an underground toxic stream
noses. The meat of these piteous creatures
when it erupts. Any who fail an Agility are
is an acquired taste—those who eat it must
covered in toxic slime that does 3d8 AP 2
make a Vigor check at –2 or be Fatigued for
damage. After their first encounter with
a day due to vomiting and diarrhea. There
such an area, future eruption sites can be
are 3d20 animals in the herd. Use statistics
spotted with a Notice roll.
for bulls from Savage Worlds.
Toxic Pool: The heroes find a large pool
Locust Swarm: The posse is attacked
of water. Roll a die. On an odd result the
by a swarm of carnivorous locusts. Treat
pool is home to 2d6 toxic zombies (page 188).
this as a swarm (see Savage Worlds).
Trash Garden: The wasters have found
No Encounter: The heroes don’t run
the site of an old and (once) illegal landfill.
into anything out of the ordinary.
The ground is covered with jagged pieces
Pale Horses: The heroes have encountered of rusted junk and garbage. The posse can
a herd of what passes for horses in the detour around the place, but this takes them
Changed Lands. These scrawny beasts are 1d4 miles out of their way. The ground is
all the same color: a pale off-white. They impassable to all but tracked vehicles, and
are covered with open, running sores and even then the driver must make a Driving
are surrounded by buzzing clouds of flies. roll at –2 to avoid getting hung up. Walking
Despite their appearance, they are fairly through the area requires each hero to make
strong and their sharp hooves can deliver two Agility checks. Failing either roll means
a nasty kick. There are 2d20 animals in the the brainer has cut himself on a piece of
herd. Use statistics for normal horses from junk. If he fails a Vigor roll, he suffers a
Savage Worlds. Long Term Chronic, Major Debilitating
disease (see Disease in Savage Worlds).
Quicksludge: The heroes stumbled into
some quicksludge. Have everyone make a War Party: The group encounters muties
Notice roll at –4. Those who fail fall in for with a mission. There are 5d6 Changed and
2d8 damage. Strength rolls at –2 are required 2d6 Veteran Changed (use Raiding Party
to pull themselves out. Future encounters stats) plus 1d4–2 toxic shamans (page 195).
can be avoided with a Notice roll. Determine the tribe by the posse’s location.
Rad Patch: The area is filled with low
levels of radiation with pockets of high
rad in pools and other collection points
(see Radiation in Savage Worlds). A Geiger
counter helps the group avoid the areas of
high concentration.
Raiding Party: The posse encounters
a group of 2d6 Changed tribesmen. The
tribesmen are accompanied by 1d4–2
Veteran Changed. Treat them as Indian
Braves and Veteran Indian Braves (page 193)
but include damaged firearms in their gear.
Toxic Cloud: A cloud of toxic chemicals
(page 95) blows over the posse. The toxic
clouds here are particularly nasty. Due to
the constant noxious haze, Notice rolls
suffer a –2 penalty instead of a +2 bonus.
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 MONSTERS &
MISFITS
Now you know the background of the
Wasted West, who’s who and where they
are, and what’s going on now that the
Reckoners have been shanghaied off to
Banshee. Your posse has loaded up their
hoglegs, put on their rad armor, and gassed
up their vehicles.
As your survivors get ready to head out
on the highways, it’s time to showcase
the things they’re going to meet out in the
wastes. The world is a dangerous place,
filled with malevolent creatures, power-
hungry madmen, and all manner of deadly
hazards of natural, supernatural, and
man-made origins.
The following pages take you on a
guided tour of the freak show that is the
Wasted West. Contained in these pages are
some of the deadliest and most terrifying
abominations the Reckoning has spawned,
as well as some of the more mundane
enemies or allies your posse may encounter.
AUTOMATONS
The best known and most feared units
of the Combine are easily those metal
monstrosities collectively known as
automatons. These steel warriors come
in a variety of shapes and sizes with one
thing in common--a hatred of their living
brethren.
Automatons were first invented by Dr.
Darius Hellstromme in the 1870s. For a long
while, it was a great mystery how these
“clockwork men” could think and react
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to the input around them. When one was
destroyed—typically in combat—it would
detonate, destroying the head casing and
whatever “thinking apparatus” was inside.
Eventually, a US Agent named Indianapolis
Smith exposed Hellstromme’s “secret of
the automatons:” The ghost rock-powered
monstrosities were wired to the brains
of dead men. In later years, Hellstromme
obfuscated their origin by calling them
“cyborgs” or “androids.” But to anyone
who’s ever encountered the evils of the
Reckoning, automatons are clearly powered
by zombie brains. Walkin’ dead brains, to
be exact.
Walkin’ dead, as discussed later, are
corpses inhabited by lesser manitous—
demons from the Hunting Grounds who use
the mortal shell to cause as much mayhem
as possible before their stolen bodies are
destroyed.
In the modern era, Colonel Throckmorton
of Denver has taken over Hellstromme’s
automatons. They are the backbone of
his army, the Combine, and exist purely to
dominate and subjugate the survivors of
the Wasted West.
It’s worth noting that Throckmorton’s
human troops--the Black Hats, Red Hats,
and others--are frequent victims of the
automatons’ wanton love of destruction. In
battle they tend to stay out of their line
of fire, and only call them in for help if
their foes are at least as dangerous as their
backup.
Standard Automaton Vengeance Brigade Automaton
Standard automatons are mean, crafty, With the lack of high tensile ghost steel
and full of tricks. There’s a manitou following The Harvest, new automatons,
behind the steering wheel after all! Usually dubbed “The Vengeance Brigade,” are
automatons are sent out in squads to patrol much less robust than pre-Harvest models.
an area or attack a designated target. This They have weaker armor and no integral
model looks like a big human skeleton weapons.
made out of metal, with glowing red eyes.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d4,
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d4, Strength d12, Vigor d12
Strength d12, Vigor d12 Skills: Climbing d6, Fighting d6, Intimidation
Skills: Climbing d6, Fighting d6, Intimidation d6, Notice d10, Shooting d6, Stealth d6
d6, Notice d10, Shooting d6, Stealth d6 Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 11 (2)
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 15 (6) Gear: Chain Gun (Range 30/60/120, Damage
Special Abilities: 2d8, RoF 5, shots 120 (stored in torso), Auto,
• Armor +6: Ghost steel casing. AP 2, Snapfire Penalty), Grenade Launcher
• Auto-Targeting: +1 to all Shooting (Range 24/48/96, Damage 3d6, 20 shots,
rolls. Medium Burst Template, fired from tube in
• Claws: Str+d8, AP 2 shoulder; can launch on the same action it
• Construct: +2 to recover from being fires at no multi-action penalty, fires 45mm
Shaken; no extra damage from called grenades which aren’t usable with non-
shots; immune to disease and poison. Combine weapons).
• Fear –2: Automatons cause Fear checks Special Abilities:
at –2. • Armor +2: Steel casing.
• Fearless: Immune to Fear and • Auto-Targeting: +1 to Shooting rolls.
Intimidation. • Claws: Str+d8
• Integrated Weapon System: Chain • Construct: +2 to recover from being
Gun (Range 30/60/120, Damage 2d8, RoF Shaken; no extra damage from called
5, shots 120 (stored in torso), Auto, AP shots; immune to disease and poison.
2, Snapfire Penalty), Grenade Launcher • Fear –2: Automatons cause Fear checks
(Range 24/48/96, Damage 3d6, 20 shots, at –2.
Medium Burst Template, fired from tube
in shoulder; can launch on the same
action it fires at no multi-action penalty,
fires 45mm grenades which aren’t usable
with non-Combine weapons).
• Recoil Brace: The automaton’s arms
act as a brace, allowing it to ignore
modifiers for autofire from automatic
weapons.
• Reconstruction: Automatons “heal”
naturally once per day via self-repair
systems as long as the brain is intact.
This is a normal Vigor roll, made at +2 if
they have a reasonable supply of scrap
metal nearby.
• Self-Destruct: When an automaton is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d6 damage
in a Large Burst Template.
• Size +1: Automatons are slightly larger
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 • Fearless: Immune to Fear and
Intimidation.
• Recoil Brace: The automaton’s arms
act as a brace, allowing it to ignore
modifiers for autofire from automatic
weapons.
• Reconstruction: Automatons “heal”
naturally once per day via self-repair
systems as long as the brain is intact.
This is a normal Vigor roll, made at +2 if
they have a reasonable supply of scrap
metal nearby.
• Self-Destruct: When an automaton is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d6 damage
in a Large Burst Template.
• Size +1: Automatons are slightly larger
than man-sized.
AUTOMATON—BATTLE HOUNDS
These automatons are used to patrol
the lands around Denver and to infiltrate
resistance camps.
Battle hounds are armed with razor-sharp
titanium claws and teeth. Incorporated
into their heads and bodies are suites
of advanced sensors, including thermal
imaging, the ability to detect the vibration
of a heartbeat from a distance, and a
superior sense of smell.
Battle Hound Patrol Model
Patrol models look like mechanical
greyhounds the size of mastiffs. They have
long steel claws, sharp jagged teeth, and
glowing red electronic eyes. Patrol models
have either the HI Hellblazer chaingun or a
plasma rifle that operates off of the hound’s
internal power supply. The patrol models
sport elaborate camouflage schemes.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6, Spirit
d6, Strength d12, Vigor d10
Skills: Climbing d12, Fighting d12,
Intimidation d6, Notice d8, Stealth d12,
Shooting d12, Tracking d8
Pace: 10; Parry: 8; Toughness: 10 (4)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +4: Metal exoskeleton.
• Camouflage: The battle hound’s paint
scheme gives it a +1 to all Stealth rolls.
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• Claws/Bite: Str+d6 AP 2
• Communication System: Military-
grade radio, Range 100 miles. Capable of
direct video feed to Black Hat patrols.
• Detection: Specialized sensors allow
the battle hound to detect a human
heartbeat within 50’ with a successful
Notice roll.
• Fear –2: Battle hounds cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Fleet-Footed: Battle hounds roll a d10
when running instead of a d6.
• Hive Mind: The battle hound is in
constant contact with all other battle
hounds within one mile.
• Integrated Weapon System: Battle
hounds are equipped with an integral HI
Hellblazer Chain Gun (Range 30/60/120,
Damage 2d8, RoF 5, shots 120 (stored in
torso), Auto, AP 2, Snapfire Penalty), or
plasma rifle (Range 24/48/96, Damage
2d8, AP 2, Small Burst Template).
• Reconstruction: Battle hounds “heal”
naturally once per day via self-repair
systems as long as the brain is intact.
This is a normal Vigor roll, made at +2 if
they have a reasonable supply of scrap
metal nearby.
• Self-Destruct: When a battle hound is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d6 damage
in a Medium Burst Template.
• Sensors: The optical, aural, and
olfactory sensors of the battle hound give
it +2 to Notice and Tracking rolls.
• Size –1: Battle hounds are relatively
small creatures.
Battle Hound Infiltrator Model
The infiltration model looks like a
living, breathing dog, but underneath it’s a
mixture of undead, canine, and the latest in
robotics. Throckmorton uses these against
resistance movements, and occasionally
Junkyard itself.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6, Spirit
d6, Strength d12, Vigor d10
Skills: Climbing d12, Fighting d12,
Intimidation d6, Notice d8, Stealth d12,
Tracking d8
Pace: 10; Parry: 8; Toughness: 8 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Metal endoskeleton.
• Claws/Bite: Str+d6, AP 2
• Communication System: Military-
grade radio, Range 100 miles. Capable of
direct video feed to Black Hat patrols.
• Detection: Specialized sensors allow
the battle hound to detect a human
heartbeat within 50’ with a successful
Notice roll.
• Fear –2: Battle hounds cause Fear
checks at –2 once their true nature is
revealed.
• Fleet-Footed: Battle hounds roll a d10
when running instead of a d6.
• Hive Mind: The battle hound is in
constant contact with all other battle
hounds within a mile.
• Infiltration: Special systems allow the
battle hound to pass for a living, breathing
pooch complete with bad breath and
bleeding wounds.
• Self-Destruct: When a battle hound is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d6 damage
in a Medium Burst Template.
• Sensors: The optical, aural, and
olfactory sensors of the battle hound give
it +2 to Notice and Tracking rolls.
• Size –1: Battle hounds are relatively
small creatures.
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Automaton-Banshee
Based on the commercial version of
Hellstromme Motor’s Arrow hover bike,
this chassis has been retooled to mount
an automaton’s upper torso. These cyborg
killers are used as quick strike forces and
their high-frequency encrypted radios make
them ideal for scouting missions as well.
They get their name from the distinctive
wail of the high-performance hover engine.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6, Spirit
d6, Strength d12, Vigor d12
Skills: Driving d12, Fighting d12, Intimidation
d6, Notice d8, Stealth d12, Shooting d12,
Tracking d8
Pace: Acc/TS 8/32; Parry: 8; Toughness:
16 (6)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +6: Ghost steel exoskeleton.
• Auto-Targeting: +1 to Shooting rolls.
• Claws: Str+d8, AP 2
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; no extra damage from called
shots; immune to disease and poison.
• Fear –2: Automatons cause Fear checks
at –2.
• Fearless: Immune to Fear and
Intimidation.
• Hover Bike Chassis: Banshees are
linked to a Hellstromme Motor’s Arrow
hover bike and their movement is treated
as if they were riding the vehicle. The
additional armor and weapons reduce the
Acceleration/Top Speed to 8/32.
• Integrated Weapon System:
Banshees are equipped with an integral HI
Hellblazer Chain Gun (Range 30/60/120,
Damage 2d8, RoF 5, shots 120 (stored in
torso), Auto, AP 2, Snapfire Penalty).
• Recoil Compensators: The banshee
ignores the penalty for autofire.
• Reconstruction: Banshees “heal”
naturally once per day via self-repair
systems as long as the brain is intact.
This is a normal Vigor roll, made at +2 if
they have a reasonable supply of scrap
metal nearby.
• Self-Destruct: When a banshee is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d6 damage
in a Large Burst Template.
• Size +2: Banshees are the size you’d
expect from an automaton attached to a
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Automaton- Widowmaker
A widowmaker is a large four-legged
metal monstrosity. It stands 15’ tall and is
capable of carrying a squad of ten men or
five automatons within its cavernous body.
The four-legged design and wide feet allow
it to traverse the roughest terrain, and its
great weight allows it to stamp any shifting
rubble flat, thus making it exceptionally
sure-footed. Its weight of five tons is also
its main disadvantage, as few bridges left
in the Wasted West between Denver and
Junkyard can support that much.
The menacing barrels of chain guns
protrude from either side of its lower jaw.
The cockpit of a widowmaker is wired to
two automaton brains.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d4,
Strength d12, Vigor d12
Skills: Driving d12, Fighting d10, Notice d10,
Shooting d6
Pace: 10 Parry: 7 Toughness: 75 (60)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +60: A widowmaker is basically
a tank, complete with armor plating.
• Auto-Targeting: +1 to all Shooting
rolls.
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; no extra damage from called
shots; immune to disease and poison.
• Dual-Brained: Widowmakers can
perform two actions each round with no
multiple action penalty.
• Fear –4: Widowmakers cause Fear
checks at –4.
• Fearless: Immune to Fear and
Intimidation.
• Heavy Armor: Only weapons marked as
Heavy Weapons can affect a widowmaker,
regardless of the damage roll.
• Integrated Weapon System: 2 Chain
Gun (Range 30/60/120, Damage 2d8, RoF
5, shots 120 (stored in torso), Auto, AP 2),
15MM Anti-Vehicle Laser on head that
can fire in a 90 degree arc in front of
the widowmaker (Range 150/300/600,
Damage 4d8, RoF 3, AP 40, Heavy Weapon).
• Large: Attackers gain +2 to hit the
widowmaker.
• Low Light Vision: Widowmakers
ignore Dim and Dark lighting penalties.
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• Recoil Compensators: The
widowmaker ignores the penalty for
autofire.
• Reconstruction: Widowmakers “heal”
naturally once per day via self-repair
systems as long as the brain is intact.
This is a normal Vigor roll, made at +2 if
they have a reasonable supply of scrap
metal nearby.
• Sealed: The interior of the widowmaker
is completely sealed. Gas, bioweapons, and
the like have no effect on the widowmaker
or its passengers.
• Self-Destruct: When a widowmaker is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d10 AP 6
damage in a Large Burst Template. This
counts as a Heavy Weapon.
• Size +7: The widowmaker is 15’ tall.
• Stomp: Widowmakers can crush
infantry (and other individuals) underfoot
as an action. The Widowmaker makes a
Fighting roll against the target’s Parry. If
successful, it causes 2d12+10 damage.
Automaton-Raptor
One of the trademark creations of the
Combine, the Raptor is a VTOL (Vertical
Take-Off and Landing) cross between a
flying vehicle and an automaton. The cargo
space in the rear can carry ten humans or
five automatons, while a winch in the belly
allows it to sling-load heavy cargoes for
transport.
Thermal imagers and high quality video
surveillance equipment can be fitted to
convert the Raptor for a reconnaissance
role, though the undead brains piloting the
crafts chafe at bloodless missions.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d4,
Strength d12+7, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d8, Notice d10, Piloting d12,
Shooting d6
Pace: -- Parry: 6 Toughness: 21 (6)
Special Abilities
• Armor +6: Raptors have light armor
plating.
• Auto-Targeting: +1 to all Shooting
rolls.
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; no extra damage from called
shots; immune to disease and poison.
• Fear –2: Raptors cause Fear checks at
–2.
• Fearless: Immune to Fear and
Intimidation.
• Flight: Raptors have a normal Flight
Pace of 10, Climb 3. For long distance
travel, they can activate turbine boosters
that increase their Pace to 40, but using
the boosters counts as an action as if
Running.
• Heavy Armor: Only weapons marked
as Heavy Weapons can affect a raptor,
regardless of the damage roll.
• Improved Stabilizer: Gyroscopic
stabilizers help the raptor maintain its
balance. Raptors ignore Unstable Platform
penalties.
• Integrated Weapon System: Chain
Gun (Range 30/60/120, Damage 2d8, RoF
5, shots 120 (stored in torso), Auto, AP 2).
• Large: Attackers gain +2 to hit the
raptor.
• Low Light Vision: Raptors ignore Dim
and Dark lighting penalties.
• Recoil Compensators: The raptor
ignores the penalty for autofire.
• Reconstruction: Raptors “heal”
naturally once per day via self-repair
systems as long as the brain is intact.
This is a normal Vigor roll, made at +2 if
they have a reasonable supply of scrap
metal nearby.
• Sealed: The interior of the raptor is
completely sealed. Gas, bioweapons, and
the like have no effect on the raptor or its
passengers.
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• Self-Destruct: When a raptor is
Incapacitated, it explodes for 3d6 damage
in a Large Burst Template.
• Size +7: Raptors are 18’ wide and 36’
long.
BEADED HORROR
The beaded horror is a mutated form of
Gila monster, a six-foot long, squat-bodied,
lizard common throughout the deserts of
the southwest.
The horrors are most often found in
abandoned bunkers due to their appetite
for gunpowder and other explosives. They
seek out caches of such materials and lair
around their favorite food source.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d10, Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d8, Notice
d4, Shooting d8, Stealth d8
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 8 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Scaly hide
• Burrow: Pace 1 through concrete,
slower through metal.
• Claw/Bite: Str+d6, AP 1
• Fear: Beaded horrors cause Fear
checks.
• Fiery Breath: Beaded horrors can belch
fire from the accumulated cordite in their
bellies. At the beginning of an encounter,
roll 1d6. This is the number of times they
can attack with this ability before they
run out of gunpowder and can no longer
use it. This attack uses the Cone Template
and works just like a flamethrower (2d10
damage, ignoring unsealed Armor).
• Lockjaw: If the beaded horror gets a
raise on a bite attack, it causes damage
as normal but clamps its jaws down and
automatically delivers bite damage
every round unless Incapacitated or
Shaken. The victim is grappled until
he breaks free (see Savage Worlds),
but can only escape using Strength,
not Agility.
• Poison: The beaded horror secretes a
poison in its saliva. Anyone bitten with
a Shaken result or worse must make a
Vigor check or take a level of Fatigue,
which can be recovered by one hour of
rest.
 • Weakness (Combustion): If a Blast shadows feed upon the life energies
fire-based attack causes a wound to
the beaded horror’s torso, roll a d6. If
the result is 4+, the creature expires in
a massive explosion, causing 4d6 damage
in a Large Burst Template.
BLACK HAT
The most common troops of General
Throckmorton’s Combine are collectively
called the “Black Hats.” They are bullies,
thugs, savages, and murderers given the
best arms available in the Wasted West by
the robotic factories in Denver.
Black Hats travel in platoon-sized
elements of 20–25 men and women. Black
Hats who travel far from Denver tend to be
disorganized rabble, but the ones closer to
the city are highly trained in tactics.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d6, Gambling d6, Healing
d4, Intimidation d4, Notice d6, Shooting
d6, Stealth d6, Swimming d4, Survival d6,
Throwing d6
Charisma: –2; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness:
7(2), 9(4 vs. bullets)
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty, Mean
Edges: --
Gear: HI Damnation assault rifle (Range
24/48/96, Damage 2d8+1, RoF 3, 30 shots,
AP 2), frag grenade (Range 5/10/20, Damage
3d6, MBT), combat knife (Str+d4), Kevlar
Vest.
Special Abilities:
• Booby-Trapped: Black Hats have
special chips implanted at the base of
their skulls. The chips interface with
their weapons and vehicles to keep the
enemies of the Combine from using their
high-tech gear. If someone without a
Combine chip attempts to use the gear,
the weapon or vehicle detonates for 3d6
damage in a Medium Burst Template.
BLAST SHADOW
Those caught at ground zero of a ghost
rock bomb explosion are vaporized instantly,
but sometimes their terror-stricken outlines
are burned into the surrounding terrain.
And sometimes these outlines come to
unlife.
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of the living. They attach themselves to
someone who looked like them in life and
begin draining away his soul. When the
host finally succumbs to the leach, the
mournful shadow fades for a few days
before rematerializing back at their outline.
Blast shadows are very difficult to notice
when attached to a victim. At the Marshal’s
whim, and when the host is in light that
obviously casts shadow, the host and all
those nearby may make a Notice roll at
–4 to spot the unnatural movement of the
parasite.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit
d10, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Notice d6, Stealth d12+4
Pace: 10 (matches user once attached);
Parry: 2; Toughness: 5
Special Abilities:
• Ethereal: Blast shadows are immaterial
and can only be harmed by magical
attacks.
• Fear: Blast shadows cause Fear checks
when noticed.
• Life Drain: A blast shadow can attach
itself to a victim automatically. Once it
does, it causes one level of Fatigue per
day. When the host reaches Incapacitated,
he dies. A brainer killed like this never
comes back Harrowed.
• Weakness (Light): Light-based attacks
do double damage to a blast shadow and
bypass its Ethereal immunity.
BLOATBELLY
While humanoid in appearance,
bloatbellies could never be mistaken for
men. Their skeletal arms are long and
distended-like an ape’s, ending in a trio of
sharp-tipped claws. Their heads are fanged
skulls, and their eye sockets filled with an
eerie blue glow.
Bloatbellies move in large groups of a few
dozen, searching for survivor settlements
to destroy. Their attacks begin with small
groups of three or four who infiltrate the
town and try to cause as much havoc
as they can. That’s when the main body
attacks: dozens of bloatbellies, swarming
over walls and bunkers like rats. Victory
in battle is not their objective. They seek
only food to desecrate, to leave ruined
and push the town towards the brink of
starvation. Unprepared communities often
won’t realize their goals until it’s too late.
Vampire Form
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8, Spirit
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
d6, Strength d12+1, Vigor d10
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d12, Intimidation d8, Notice
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d4, Stealth
d8, Stealth d10
d6, Swimming d6, Tracking d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 8; Toughness: 9
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
Special Abilities:
• Bloodsucker: With a bite to the neck,
• Breath: The creature can belch up a
the beast locks on. Every action after
small amount of gas (see below) at anyone
that it automatically drains a Fatigue
adjacent to it. This affects one target for
level worth of blood. The bloody juicebox
one round.
can only break free by winning a contest
• Claws/Bite: Str+d8.
of Strength against the bloodwolf. Each
• Fear –2: Bloatbellies cause Fear checks
Fatigue level from blood drain can be
at –2.
recovered in a day.
• Gas: If a bloatbelly takes a wound, it
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4
explodes in a toxic cloud the size of a Small
• Fear –2: Bloodwolves in vampire form
Burst Template. Inhaling or contacting the
cause Fear checks at –2.
gas with bare skin causes 2d6 damage
• Improved Frenzy: The bloodwolf may
every round contact is maintained. All food
make two attacks each round without
which the gas touches is destroyed. The
penalty.
gas lasts for 1d6 rounds; halve duration
• Invulnerability: Bloodwolves can only
in high winds and double it in windless
be harmed by their Weaknesses. They
conditions.
may be Shaken by other attacks, but not
• Poison: A bloatbelly’s teeth and nails
wounded.
are coated with a rot-causing poison. Any
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
hero taking a wound from these must
from being Shaken; no extra damage
make a Vigor roll or the flesh around
from called shots; immune to disease and
the injury withers. The target suffers an
poison.
immediate Injury (see Savage Worlds)
until all their wounds are fully healed.

BLOODWOLF
Ever wonder what you get when you
cross a werewolf and a vampire? The
answer is the unholy creature known as
the bloodwolf. This crimson-furred beast
stalks the High Plains by the light of the
full moon. Its bloodcurdling howl is enough
to turn even the most stalwart hero’s spine
to ice. There are few folks even among the
hard-bitten denizens of the Wasted West
who can keep themselves from crawling
into the nearest hidey-hole when they hear
that savage call.
Most of the time, the bloodwolf is just
a simple bloodsucker, a vampire whose
biggest problem is finding fresh blood in
the wastelands. When the full moon rises,
though, the silvery orb transforms the
thing into a vicious werewolf, causing
it to take its horrible bloodwolf form.

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 • Weakness (Sunlight): The bloodwolf
cannot tolerate direct ultraviolet light.
They suffer a –2 penalty to all actions
when exposed (but they do not burn like
regular vampires).
• Weakness (Wooden Weapons):
Weapons made of wood cause damage
normally, and a wooden stake through
the heart (a called shot at –6) paralyzes
a bloodwolf in vampire form. It is
invulnerable to silver weapons while in
this form.
Bloodwolf Form
Attributes: Agility d12+2, Smarts d6, Spirit
d6, Strength d12+2, Vigor d12+1
Skills: Climbing d12, Fighting d12, Notice
d10, Stealth d10
Pace: 6; Parry: 8; Toughness: 11
Special Abilities:
• Claws/Bite: Str+d6.
• Fear –4: Bloodwolves cause Fear
checks at –4.
• Improved Frenzy: The bloodwolf may
make two attacks each round without
penalty.
• Invulnerability: Bloodwolves can only
be harmed by their Weaknesses. They
may be Shaken by other attacks, but not
wounded.
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease and
poison.
• Weakness (Silver Weapons): The
bloodwolf suffers normal damage from
silver weapons. It is invulnerable to
wooden weapons while in this form.
BLOODWAVE
Bloodwaves are the nature spirits of the
water in the Great Maze, driven to anger by
pollution and bloodshed. The devastation
of the Last War roused them from their
slumber, and now they’re looking to make
folks pay. A bloodwave appears as a towering
wall of crimson seawater with two great
limbs and a hideous face springing from its
bulk. It waits in ambush for boats, rising up
to tear them apart and drown their crews.
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Bloodwaves are bound by water and
cannot manifest on dry land. Only large
bodies of water (small lakes and larger)
provide enough liquid to support their
hate-filled forms.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8, Spirit
d10, Strength d12+2, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d12, Intimidation d8, Notice
d8, Stealth d12
Pace: 8; Parry: 8; Toughness: 10
Special Abilities:
• Fear –2: Bloodwaves cause Fear checks
at –2.
• Grasping Limbs:
Weapon.
Str+d10, Heavy
• Hardy: Shaken results do not cause
wounds.
• Fast Regeneration: Bloodwaves can
make a Vigor roll at the beginning of
every round to recover any damage they’ve
received as long as they’re in contact with
water; +2 to recover from being Shaken.
• Size +2: A bloodwave stands 8’ tall.
• Weakness (Arcane Powers): Wounds
caused by arcane powers cannot be
regenerated.
BONE BOT
Bone bots are the size of matchboxes and
made entirely from scavenged biological
parts—bone and cartilage mostly, plus a
few other nonperishable items of carrion.
They’re awkward and graceless with six or
eight legs, and the design is always slightly
different depending on the materials
available when it is made or repaired.
Bone bots are the result of robotics
experiments conducted by Professor
Ruben Bombora at the Missouri Institute
of Technology. Bombora and his team built
the first SE-17s; miniature robots designed
to mimic insect behavior. Though not
intelligent, per se, their nanochips were able
to learn from stimuli, with their chief aim
being reproduction. They do so by stripping
down biological components from organic
sources, resulting in mutilations of cattle
and sometimes unfortunate wasters.
Unfortunately, after the Apocalypse, they
have no real orders other than to go forth
and multiply.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d12, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Notice d6,
Pace: 10; Parry: 4; Toughness: 7
Special Abilities:
• Bite: Bone bots cause 2d4 damage to
everyone in their template as the creatures
strip the bone and cartilage from the body.
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; no extra damage from called
shots; immune to disease and poison.
• Fear –2: Bone bots cause Fear checks
at –2.
• Swarm: Parry +2; cutting or piercing
weapons do no real damage. Area effect
weapons work normally, and a character
can inflict his damage in Strength by
stomping or smashing.
• Tenacious: A bone bot swarm starts as
a Medium Burst Template. When it takes
a wounding hit, it splits into two smaller
swarms (Small Burst Templates).
BRAIN BUZZARD
With dirty black feathers, fleshy pink
heads, and great hooked beaks, brain
buzzards look like oversized vultures with
oversized heads. They have the ability to
generate electro-magnetic pulses (EMPs)
that knock out all manner of electronics.
They attack such devices because they
suffer pain from being in proximity to them,
zeroing in on offending items to fire off an
EMP just to make the pain stop.
Brain buzzards are more common down
south in northern Texas, New Mexico,
and Arizona. They usually steer clear of
Combine soldiers because of the headaches
they cause. They’re thick along the old
Route 66 trail much to the consternation
of the traders who convoy up and down
the cracked remains of the CSA’s I-40.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
d6, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d10, Notice
d6, Stealth d8
Pace: 2; Parry: 6; Toughness: 8
Special Abilities:
• Claw/Bite: Str+d6.
• Electromagnetic Pulse: Brain
buzzards send out an EMP as an action
that fries most any electronics within 20”.
Roll a d10 for each item affected. On a 10,
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the item is unaffected, but on any other
result, the item is fried, requiring a Repair
roll at –2 and 30 minutes to fix. Shielded
devices, such as Combine Headbanger
chips, are fried only on a roll of 1–3. Heavily
shielded electronics such as automatons
are fried only on a 1 on the d10.
• Fear: Brain buzzards cause Fear checks.
• Flight: Pace 12, Climb 1.
• Size +1: Brain buzzards are big vultures.
CHOP BOT
These small robots are built by the
Denver AI to salvage raw materials from
blasted cities. The Combine finds itself
short of raw materials for its automaton
factories as it tries to replace the losses
suffered during the Harvest and the Battle
of Worms, so chop bots are more and more
common outside of Denver.
They look like metallic spiders,
complete with eight multi-jointed legs.
Two multifaceted crystal eyes contain the
sensors and radio antennae. The robot’s
legs end in small hooked claws which allow
them to cling to nearly any surface. Where
a spider has mandibles, however, the chop
bots have a pair of circular tungsten carbide
saw blades capable of cutting through
most materials. They cut up cars, rebar,
I-beams, or whatever they are programmed
to recover, and put them in automated
tractor trailers that trail along behind them.
Chop bots don’t usually attack creatures,
but defend themselves if attacked in melee.
If attacked by ranged weapons, they hide
and radio for help. Combine troopers can
command these small bots as desired. Chop
bots are usually encountered in groups of
6 to 10.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d8, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d6, Notice d8, Repair d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 7 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Chop bots have metal
exoskeletons.
• Circular Saw Arms: 2d6 damage, AP
3.
• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; Immune to poison, disease, and
suffocation; no additional damage from
Called Shots.
 • Size –1: Chop bots stand 3–4’ tall.
• Wall Walker: A chop bot can walk up
and along metal surfaces at its Pace if the
structure will support its weight. It may
also run.
CROAKER
Croakers are fishlike humanoids living
in vast underwater communities across
the Maze. Although croakers aren’t
abominations as such, they are a cruel and
merciless race.
The fish men worship a dark sea
goddess who demands frequent sacrifices.
For several decades now, the high priests
of their evil religion have claimed that
the goddess demands human sacrifices.
Victims are abducted from the survivor
settlements around the Maze and given the
ability to breathe water by injecting them
with strange elixirs. Then they are pulled
hundreds of feet below the surface and
slowly murdered in the croakers’ unholy
rituals.
Typical raiding parties looking for
sacrifices consist of 10–15 croakers armed
with crossbows. A shamanic priest leads
the school of warriors and lends support
should the croakers encounter well-armed
defenders. The group looks for small groups
of humans and then attacks, killing all
but one, who they then kidnap for their
sacrifice.
Croaker Warrior
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Notice d6, Shooting d6,
Stealth d6, Swimming d8
Pace: 5; Parry: 5; Toughness: 8 (1)
Gear: Crossbow (Range 15/30/60, Damage
2d6, AP 2, 1 round to reload).
Special Abilities:
• Aquatic: Pace 8.
• Armor +1: Blubbery skin.
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fear –2: Croakers cause Fear checks at
–2.
• Size +1: Croakers are large and blubbery.
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Croaker Shaman
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Notice d6, Shooting d6,
Faith d8, Stealth d6, Swimming d8, Throwing
d6
Pace: 5; Parry: 5; Toughness: 8 (1)
Gear: Crossbow (Range 15/30/60, Damage
2d6, AP 2, 1 round to reload), three single-
use syringes of elemental protection (water)
lasting 5 hours.
Special Abilities:
• Aquatic: Pace 8.
• Armor +1: Blubbery skin.
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fear –2: Croakers cause Fear checks at
–2.
• Miracles: Armor, bolt, deflection; 25
Power Points.
• Size +1: Croakers are large and blubbery.
Shrak
Rumor has it these horrid abominations
were created by Northern Alliance scientists
to drive the Confederates out of the Maze
before the Last War. Shraks now serve the
croakers (see page 167), acting as hunting
dogs or “shock troops” for their frequent
raids on human settlements. The shark-like
humanoids can move on land as well as
water, and they can even climb sheer walls
by driving their claws into the rock.
When not hunting or raiding, shraks
patrol the waters around their master’s vast
lair. There are rarely any other large fish
or predators where these voracious eaters
roam.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4, Spirit d6,
Strength d12+1, Vigor d10
Skills: Climbing d10, Fighting d10,
Intimidation d10, Stealth d10, Swimming d10,
Tracking d10 (in water)
Pace: 6; Parry: 7; Toughness: 10 (1)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +1: Thick skin.
• Aquatic: Pace 8.
• Bite: Str+d8.
• Fear –2: Shraks cause Fear checks at
–2.
• Size +2: Shraks are large and muscular.

DESERT GATOR
In appearance, the desert gator looks very
like a natural gator, only on a much larger
scale. Its coloration suits its new rugged
environment: its back is dusky brown with
green highlights and its belly is light tan.
Desert gators are extremely fast and have
long, frog-like, sticky tongues that can lash
out 16 yards or more and reel in some poor
brainer. The reptile’s speed/tongue combo
is harsh—once within a desert gator’s jaws
there isn’t much hope.
Desert gators only started popping up
about 20 years ago in the West, but they’ve
been lurking in Louisiana swamps for
some time. They aren’t naturally occurring
mutants. They were cooked up in a lab by
a team of scientists studying the effects of
G-rays on living tissue. Intrigued by the new
breed’s resistance to dry heat, they dumped
them in the wild for years just to see how
they would adapt to their new environment.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d8, Strength d12+3, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d8, Notice
d6, Stealth d8
Pace: 8; Parry: 6; Toughness: 12 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Scaly hide.
• Bite/Tail: Str+d6. The gator knocks a
person back 2” for every raise it gets on
a tail attack.
• Camouflage: The gator’s coloration
gives it +1 to all Stealth rolls in desert
environments.
• Fear: Desert gators cause Fear checks.
• Fearless: The desert gator is immune
to Fear and Intimidation.
• Fleet-Footed: Desert gators have a d10
running die instead of d6, though only for
up to three consecutive rounds. After that
they may not run at all for another three
rounds.
• Radiation Resistant: Desert gators
gain +4 Armor and +4 to Trait rolls to
resist radiation and radiation-based
attacks, including all offensive Doomsayer
powers.
• Size +3: Desert gators average about
15–20’ long, although a good amount of
that is snout and tail. Smaller and larger
varieties exist.
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• Tongue Grab: Desert gators can use
their long sticky tongue to make a grapple
attack up to 8” away. It can pull the victim
to it at a rate of 4” per round. The victim
can attempt to free himself from the
sticky organ but only using Strength, not
Agility. The tongue can be attacked with a
Called Shot at –2; this bypasses the desert
gator’s Armor and releases the target on
a Shaken result. The tongue is severed if
an attack on it does a wound or more ,
but this does not cause a wound to the
gator itself, which is only Shaken.
DEVIL BATS
First observed in the Badlands of the
Dakota Territory, these creatures escaped
being hunted to extinction because their
main nests were in the anti-technology
zone of the Sioux Nations. Covert forays
against them by the Agency always ended
in failure for the government forces.
Devil bats are nocturnal predators who
hunt in packs. They attack by racing from
the night sky and grabbing prey with their
taloned feet. If the devil bat is successful, it
races into the air and drops its prey from
the apex of its swoop, hoping to dash it to
death on the rocks below. The devil bats
then settle down to devour the victim,
whether he’s dead or merely stunned.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8(A), Spirit
d8, Strength d12+1, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10, Notice
d8, Stealth d12+2
Pace: 4; Parry: 7; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
• Claws: Str+d4
• Death From Above: A flying devil bat
that hits with a raise causes damage as
usual. In addition, the devil bat grasps its
prey in its claws and moves the remainder
of its Flight Pace. The next round the
devil bat drops its prey to the ground
(see falling damage in Savage Worlds).
Characters on Hold or who have not yet
taken their action may attempt to hold
on by making an opposed Strength roll. If
successful, the prey continues to struggle.
With a raise, the victim forces the devil
bat close enough to a landing spot to
jump free without taking damage.
• Flight: Pace 16, Climb 1.
 • Quick: Devil bats discard Action Cards
of 5 or lower.
• Weakness (Stillness): Devil bats see
by sonar. They must subtract 4 from their
attack rolls if their prey stands stock
still (assuming they detected it before
the victims “froze”). Standing still when
a devil bat is sweeping down requires a
Fear check at –2. Failure means the victim
flinches or moves, allowing the bats to
“see” him.
DISCORD BUG
These mean-spirited insects feed on the
energy of negative emotions: anger, fear,
violence, what have you. In order to feed, the
critter sets up a high-pitched hum audible
up to twenty yards from its wings. The
hum has the effect of setting most folks
on edge, and given time, those same folks
get downright ornery. Some are even driven
to kill by the persistent drone, which suits
the bug’s unusual dietary requirements just
fine.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d4, Strength —, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d12, Notice
d6, Shooting d8, Stealth d10
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 9 (3)
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Special Abilities:
• Armor +3: Tough carapace.
• Bite: Str.
• Discord: The discord bug uses its wings
and Intimidation skill to instill feelings of
paranoia and anger in all those within
10”. All those hearing the hum must resist
with an opposed Spirit roll every minute
(add +2 to the roll for those with some
sort of ear protection. Deaf characters are
immune). The first failure turns a person
surly and angry, giving them the Mean
Hindrance. A second failure (or the first
if the character already has the Mean
Hindrance) counts a being under a puppet
power with a command of “attack the
nearest person with a wild attack.” The
only way to stop the character once he
starts is to Incapacitate him, move him
out of the area affected, or find and kill
the discord bug.
• Flight: Pace 12, Climb 2. The discord
bug cannot fly while using the Discord or
Syker Interference abilities.
• Piercing Wail: The discord bug can
make a sonic ranged attack doing 3d6
damage (5/10/20) with a high pitched
whine. It uses the thorax to create this
noise, leaving the wings free to use either
the Discord or Syker Interference abilities.
 • Size –2: Discord bugs are about 6” long
and 2–3” thick.
• Small: Attackers must subtract 2 from
their rolls when attacking a discord bug
because of its small size.
• Syker Interference: Discord bugs
can detect sykers up to 50” away by the
telltale hum of their enhanced brains.
Instead of using their Discord ability
they can create a subsonic hum that only
affects sykers, increasing the cost to use
any syker power by +1 Power Point and
inflicts a –2 penalty to Psionics.
DOGS O’ WAR
Following the Reckoning, War stomped
across Kansas and the High Plains battling
the Sioux and scattering bands of soldiers
and other heroes in his unholy wake.
Behind the Reckoner trailed a pack of
baying, bloodthirsty hounds that came to
be known as the “dogs o’ War.”
These beasts were raised from death
by War to hound those who escaped his
ravages. Several packs were left behind to
continue chasing lone travelers and cull the
weak. Today, they are most common to the
High Plains where War once roamed.
The dogs have a very simple and deadly
form of attack. When they spy potential
prey (anything that moves), the “alpha” (the
pack’s leader) gives off a mournful wail
that unnerves all but the strongest souls.
Then the rest of the pack bolts after the
prey at a rush, not stopping until they or
their victims are finished.
The alpha watches from a respectful
distance. If his pack is destroyed, he leaves
and forms another over the next 1d6 days. .
Dog o’ War
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
d6, Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Notice d10, Tracking d8
Pace: 8; Parry: 6; Toughness: 7
Special Abilities:
• Claw/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fear: Dogs o’ War cause Fear checks.
• Fearless: Dogs o’ War are immune to
Fear and Intimidation.
• Fleet-Footed: Dogs o’ War roll a d10
when running instead of a d6.
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• Go for the Throat: Dogs o’ War
instinctively go for an opponent’s soft
spots. With a raise on its attack roll, it
hits the target’s most weakly-armored
location.
• Size –1: Dogs o’ War are the size of
mastiffs.
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease and
poison.
Dog o’ War Alpha
Attributes: Agility d12, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
d6, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d12, Intimidation d6, Notice
d10, Stealth d12, Tracking d8
Pace: 8; Parry: 8; Toughness: 9
Special Abilities:
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fear –2: Dog o’ War alphas cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Fearless: Dogs o’ War alphas are
immune to Fear and Intimidation.
• Fleet-Footed: Dogs o’ War alphas roll
a d10 when running instead of a d6.
• Go for the Throat: Dogs o’ War alphas
instinctively go for an opponent’s soft
spots. With a raise on its attack roll, it
hits the target’s most weakly-armored
location.
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease
and poison. Alphas do not suffer wound
modifiers.
• Wail o’ the Damned: Alphas can emit
a mournful wail that unnerves all but
the strongest souls. Everyone who hears
the wail must make a Fear check at –4.
This may only be attempted once per
encounter—usually just before the pack
moves in to attack.
• Coup: The character gains +2 to Fear
rolls while engaged in battle.
DOOMBRINGERS
Silas has many troops at his disposal,
from mutants to radiation priests. His
radiation priests are called Doomsayers,
blessed with powers by the grace of the
Glow. Hundreds still serve the Mutant King
despite their losses during the Harvest.
These acolytes lead the faithful in the
City o’ Sin, as well as leading missionary
caravans into the wastelands to bring more
of the genetically altered into the fold.
The most vicious, powerful, and relentless
of all Silas’ followers are the Doombringers,
the chosen of the chosen. These ugly,
mutated creatures are more monster
than human. They retain a feral human
intelligence but are twisted and consumed
by their hatred for norms, disloyal mutants,
and especially heretic Doomsayers. Even
those within the Cult of Doom tremble at
the mention of their name, and few outside
the Cult have survived an encounter with
them. Silas doesn’t really want many of
these wackos around, so he sends the
worst of them off into the wastes to hunt
down heretics.

Doomsayer
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Driving d4, Faith d8, Fighting d6,
Healing d6, Intimidation d8, Notice d6,
in 1d6 days. The first thing most
Persuasion d8, Shooting d6, Stealth d6,
Doom­ bringers do when they return is
Survival d6
hunt down their killers.
Charisma: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness:
• Fear –2: Doombringers cause Fear
6
checks at –2 (on close inspection).
Hindrances: Loyal (to Silas)
• Powers: Doombringers have 50 Power
Edges: Arcane Background (Doomsayer)
Points and 6–8 Powers, but almost always
Gear: Green robes
have blast and bolt.
Special Abilities:
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
• Powers: Blast, bolt, and typically 2–4
from being Shaken; no extra damage
more.
from called shots; immune to disease
and poison. Doombringers do not suffer
Doombringers wound modifiers.
• Weakness (Doomsayer Powers):
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit Only a Doomsayer power that delivers a
d10, Strength d6, Vigor d8 killing wound to the target’s torso or head
Skills: Faith d10, Fighting d8, Healing d6, can permanently destroy a Doombringer.
Intimidation d8, Notice d8, Persuasion d8, • Coup: The character gets 2 additional
Shooting d6, Stealth d6, Survival d6 points of Armor when resisting radiation-
Charisma: –4; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: based attacks.
8
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty, Loyal
Edges: Arcane Background (Doomsayer)
FATE EATER
Gear: — Fate eaters are ghosts of people who died
Special Abilities: on Judgment Day with unfinished business
• Atomic Resurrection: Doombringers to complete. They extort living victims into
can be “killed,” but even if they’re finishing that business for them by robbing
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mysterious force when the deal is done.
The completion of the desired task usually
allows the fate eater to end its existence as
a trapped spirit on earth and go to its next
reward.
The task in question might be ridiculous,
poignant, or just plain deadly. Even the
simplest task can be lethal in the Wasted
West. The victim may be called upon to
avenge a wrong, wrest a confession of
mutual love from someone the fate eater
worshipped from afar, or find lost treasure.
Fate eaters look like ghostly apparitions
of their former selves. They’re only rarely
glimpsed outside their victim’s dreams.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Varies based on the fate eater’s
former identity.
Pace: 6; Parry: Varies; Toughness: N/A
Special Abilities:
• Contact: Fate eaters can talk to their
targets in two ways—through dreams
and (with great effort) distant whispers
of a few simple words. This is how they
communicate their task.
• Ethereal: Fate eaters are incorporeal
and can pass through solid objects.
• Fear –2: Fate eaters cause Fear checks
at –2.
• Invulnerability: Fate eaters can only
be Shaken; they cannot be Wounded.
• Devour Fate: The victim of a fate eater
gets one less Benny per game session.
Typically the only way to repair this is to
complete the spirit’s task. Sometimes this
is counter-productive to the fate eater’s
quest, but the angry spirit has no choice
in the matter.
FIZZERS
Fizzers are humans with pale complexions,
glazed, sunken eyes and greasy hair. They
typically wear pre-War t-shirts three sizes
too small, peppered with holes and stained
with Bubbly-Fizz Cola. Their skin is covered
with oozing, volcanic zits that bubble and
fizz from every inch of exposed flesh, with
little daubs of dripping green goo that bead
along their rancid gums where their rotted
teeth used to be.
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Fizzers are addicted to Bubbly-Fizz
Cola. They kill for it. It’s almost like they
worship it. They live in chaotic, violence-
prone wandering colonies whose only goal
is survival and the acquisition of more
B-Fizz. Individually weak, they are strong
in numbers.
Fizzers are not, technically speaking,
mutants. They’re victims of a genetically
engineered virus created a few years before
the war by unscrupulous executives of
the Bubbly-Fizz Beverage Corporation. The
virus, planted in random batches of the cola,
was meant to reinforce a brand preference
for Bubbly-Fizz, with no other side effects.
Funny how viruses engineered at the behest
of unscrupulous executives always seem
to go awry, isn’t it? In this case, the virus
not only significantly degraded the physical
and mental health of its victims, but also
induced an overwhelming psychological
need for the product. In the aftermath of
the war, the infected are doubly screwed,
because B-Fizz is now a nonrenewable
resource.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4, Spirit d4,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Driving d6, Fighting d6, Notice
d6, Shooting d6, Stealth d6, Survival d4,
Tracking d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 5
Gear: Various scavenged melee and ranged
weapons.
Special Abilities:
• Caffeine Overdrive: For 24 hours
after consuming Bubbly-Fizz Cola, they
gain the Quick and Level Headed Edges.
• Detect Bubbly-Fizz: Can sense an
open Bubbly-Fizz Cola within 100”.
• Fear: Fizzers cause Fear checks.
• Surge: Fizzers gain the effects of the
Berserk Edge the moment they detect
their favorite beverage (Parry –2; +2 to
Fighting, Strength, melee damage rolls,
and Toughness; ignore Wound modifiers).
GALLOS TERRIBLES
Doctor Clarence Bachman was a
Confederate virologist during the Last War,
assigned to a remote research facility in
the Arizona desert a hundred miles from
nowhere. He hated the assignment. The work
was boring and he was trapped indoors
by a violent case of herpetophobia—fear • Fear: Gallos cause Fear checks.
of reptiles. The Arizona desert’s crawling • Size +1: Gallos are over 10’ tall, but thin
with them: lizards, snakes, gila monsters, with long legs.
you name it and you’ll find it. Bachman
decided to clear the area of these ‘fearsome’
creatures using the skills he was best with:
GHOST ROCK WRAITH
genetic engineering. Ghost rock consists of damned souls,
trapped and sentenced to eternal agony
The indigenous roadrunners were the
within the mineral they inhabit. When the
most common predators of reptilian desert
bombs fell, millions of these tortured beings
life. Bachman set out to unlock the genes
were released and scattered in radioactive
for size, speed, and aggressiveness in the
ash. Sometimes, a condemned soul has
otherwise inoffensive, flightless avian.
enough will, strength, or just plumb
After months of research, he eventually
meanness to escape, coalescing from ghost
succeeded, and released the resultant
rock dust to stalk the night and share the
species into the desert to develop without
pain of its terrible existence.
the interference of human beings. What he
ended up with met all of his specifications, Ghost rock wraiths haunt particular
and then some. areas or sites, usually the places where
they first manifested. They usually do
The gallos terribles, as they’re now called,
not stray far more than a few hundred
evolved far beyond Doctor Bachman’s
yards from their place of origin. A wraith
initial projections. The radiation of the
appears before any interlopers who enter
desert has destabilized their DNA and
its territory as a man-shaped swirl of ghost
caused further mutations, causing them to
rock dust glowing green with radioactivity.
grow as tall as a man, augmenting their
Their insubstantiality means only fire and
already considerable speed, and worse yet,
certain holy incantations can damage them.
their foraging instincts. The creatures have
They flee if sufficiently injured, but cannot
regressed into a primeval, monstrous state
be driven away otherwise.
driven only to hunt and bring down prey—
reptilian or otherwise.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d10(A), Spirit
d10, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d8, Notice
d6, Stealth d10, Taunt d10
Pace: 12; Parry: 7; Toughness: 10 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Tough hide.
• Beak: Str+d8, AP 2 (+2 damage if it can
move 6” in a straight line before attacking)
• Dust Storm: Even though the road
runners they’re descended from are
solitary creatures, for whatever reason,
gallos terribles hunt in flocks. When large
prey is detected in the desert, a flock of
gallos kicks up a dust cloud for protection.
The area of effect is equal to the number
of gallos within the storm multiplied by
3” in diameter, and causes –2 to any attack
rolls within (gallos have shielded eyes and
do not suffer this penalty). Those without
sealed eyewear may similarly ignore this
penalty. While within the cloud, the gallos
swarm over their prey, disorienting them
with the dust and sowing confusion with
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 Wraiths sometimes manage to show
other damned souls the way out of their
spiritual prisons. Travelers have reported
finding entire areas swarming with the
things.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d8, Notice
d4, Stealth d8
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
• Claws: Wraiths slash with burning
claws for Str+d10 damage.
• Ethereal: Wraiths are incorporeal and
can pass through solid objects.
• Fear –2: Ghost rock wraiths cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Fearless: Ghost rock wraiths are
immune to Fear and Intimidation.
• Invulnerability: Ghost rock wraiths
can only be harmed by their Weaknesses.
They may be Shaken by other attacks,
but not wounded.
• Burning Aura: Anyone in contact with
a wraith must make a Vigor roll each
round just as if he were in a high-radiation
area (see Savage Worlds).
• Weakness (Fire): Fire causes a wraith
to momentarily flash and lose its ethereal
special ability until the beginning of its
next turn. During that time they may be
attacked normally.
• Weakness (Magic): Attacks by arcane
powers of any kind cause normal damage.
GLOM
A glom (short for conglomerate) is a
group of corpses joined together into
a horrifying mass and animated by an
especially strong manitou. The parts of
the component bodies can be seen clearly,
although they are merged inseparably into a
single abomination. The creation of a glom
requires at least two corpses. One corpse,
in which the manitou houses its primary
essence, must be relatively intact, but the
others needn’t be so tidy.
Most gloms are formed from considerably
more than two corpses, usually at the site
of a recent battle. Even more terrifying is
the glom’s ability to join additional corpses
to its seething mass, increasing its power
proportionately.
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Gloms use their limbs and whatever
weapons are handy to kill any living person
in sight. Gloms can wield guns if available,
though since its limbs often flail wildly, any
shots fired by the thing suffer a –2 penalty.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4, Spirit d4,
Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d6, Notice
d10, Shooting d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 9
Gear: Gloms may carry weapons according
to the number of hands they possess.
Special Abilities:
• Claws: Str+d4. Strength depends on the
number of corpses in the creature (see
below).
• Fear –2: Anyone viewing a glom must
make a Fear check at –2.
• Fearless: Gloms are immune to Fear
and Intimidation.
• Glom: For every additional corpse after
the second, the glom gains a die type
each in Strength. For every doubling of
the number of corpses (at four and eight),
it gains a die type of Vigor and +1 Size.
A glom suffers no multi-action penalties
until it takes more actions in a turn than
it has corpses in its mass. A glom may
grow as large as ten corpses (Strength
d12+6, Vigor d12, Size +3). Each doubling
also increases the Fear penalty to –3 and
–4 respectively.
• Invulnerable: Permanently killing a
glom requires destroying its primary head.
Hitting other body parts can Shake the
creature but causes no wounds. There is
a 1 in X chance that any called shot to
the head is the correct one, where X is
the number of heads. Potential wounds
from an area effect weapon have a 1 in X
chance of success as well.
• Size +1: A two-corpse glom is Size +1.
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease and
poison.
GLOW WORM
This creature begins “life” as a glowing
mass of six inch long, wiggling worms.
After a period ranging from seven days to a
month, the glow worms merge and encyst,
forming a tough cocoon of melted concrete,
asphalt, and metal slag. The chrysalis
swells to five times its original size over the Pace: 10; Parry: 7; Toughness: 16 (5)
next three to five days, after which time the Special Abilities:
adult form, known as a voracipede, emerges • Armor +5: Thick carapace.
and begins protecting the hive. • Burrow (12”): Voracipedes can
disappear and reappear on the following
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
action anywhere within 12”.
d12, Strength d8, Vigor d10
• Claws/Bite: Str+d8, AP 2. On a raise
Skills: Notice d6
the creature does normal damage and has
Pace: 3; Parry: 4; Toughness: 7
grappled its target.
Special Abilities:
• Eye Beam: Range 5/10/20, Damage
• Bite: Glow worms automatically cause
3d6.
2d4 damage to everyone in the template.
• Fear –2: Voracipedes cause Fear checks
• Fear: Glow worms cause Fear checks.
at –2.
• Immunity (Radiation): Immune to
• Size +3: Voracipedes are 20 feet long
radiation and radiation-based powers.
and 4 feet tall.
• Radiation: Characters within 3” of a
• Wall Walker: Pace 10.
glow worm swarm are exposed to high
radiation (see Savage Worlds).
• Swarm: Parry +2; cutting or piercing GORE STORM
weapons do no real damage. Area effect
These particularly nasty beings, a joint
weapons work normally, and a character
creation of War and Death, came to Earth
can inflict his damage in Strength by
with the Reckoners, and have been salted
stomping.
throughout the Wasted West’s worst
• Weakness (Alkaloids): Certain
Deadlands in order to keep their despair
alkaloids such as salt and chlorine (at
and terror quotients up in the stratosphere.
least a half pound) cause 2d6 damage
per round of contact as it dries out the Gore storms appear as screaming twisters
worms. of gore and flesh, a bubbling vortex of
blood and muscle and bone. Although they
often seem to possess a malign intelligence,
Voracipede and they apparently enjoy toying with their
victims before finishing them off, gore
The voracipede is a 20’ long anthropoid
storms are creatures of instinct. They exist
creature resembling a nightmarish fusion of
only to feed upon the flesh of their victims.
centipede and praying mantis with scythe-
like forelimbs, razor-sharp horns, a wicked Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4, Spirit
set of mandibles, and a central eye capable d10, Strength d12, Vigor d8
of emitting a concentrated beam of energy Skills: Fighting d12, Notice d4
powerful enough to vaporize steel. Pace: 8; Parry: 8; Toughness: 9
Special Abilities:
This predator exists to devour animal
• Fear –4: Gore storms cause Fear checks
life for the purposes of self-fertilization.
at –4.
After a number of months of hunting, the
• Invulnerability: Because of their fluid
voracipede seeks out a suitable amount
nature, gore storms can only be Shaken
of contaminated water and radioactive
by attacks other than their Weaknesses.
waste away from the main hive. Like a
• Size +3: Gore storms are large masses of
paper wasp, it builds a subterranean lair
whirling viscera. They grow exponentially
out of whatever materials are on hand and
larger after killing living prey, adding +1 to
entombs itself. After a period of a month,
their Strength and Size for roughly every
the nest splits open releasing a swarm of
five bodies assimilated (killed), until they
larval glow worms to begin the process
max out at Size +11 and Strength d12+8.
anew.
• Weakness (Area Effect Attacks): The
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit gore storm takes normal damage from
d8, Strength d10, Vigor d12 area effect attacks.
Skills: Fighting d10, Notice d6, Shooting d10, • Weakness (Magic): Attacks by arcane
Stealth d10 powers of any kind cause normal damage.

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 • Whirlwind: Gore storms take up a
Medium Burst Template (Large at Size +6
and higher), and anyone in or adjacent to it
automatically takes Str+d8 damage from
razor-sharp bones slicing through the air.
Due to the spiritual nature of its attack, it
can’t damage vehicles, machines, or other
inanimate objects. Cyborgs take only half
damage from its attacks.
HEAD CASE
A head case is an undead syker’s head
encased in a helmet-like contraption with
miniature rocket boosters to allow flight,
and has small stunted manipulator arms.
The heads were kept in a US Army
research lab somewhere near Denver, and
were gathered from the corpses of both
Earth and Faraway sykers. The brains of
these powerful psis were tested, measured,
scooped, and eventually given artificial life
via alchemical and arcane means.
The undead souls are given animation by
manitous just like all walkin’ dead, but the
core group of head cases are evil enough
that the demons are happy to leave the
mortal in charge (those who resisted were
destroyed or fled early on). The remainder
now wander the West with a horde of
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psionically-dominated slaves and an intense
desire to suck the life from any psionicist
they meet.
Attributes: Agility d4, Smarts d8, Spirit
d10, Strength d4, Vigor d6
Skills: Driving d4, Intimidation d6, Notice
d8, Persuasion d8, Psionics d12, Repair d8,
Shooting d8, Taunt d8
Pace: 1; Parry: 2; Toughness: 5 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Head cases have a plastic
and metal casing.
• Brain Drain: Head cases may make
an opposed Psionics test versus any
other psionically-endowed creature as an
action, draining a Power Point for every
point they beat them by if they win. If the
target is drained to 0, the head case may
initiate another brain drain that causes
Fatigue for every success and raise. If
this Incapacitates the victim, he’s slain
and the head case permanently adds five
Power Points to its own supply.
• Construct: +2 to Toughness; +2 to
recover from being Shaken; no extra
damage from called shots (even to the
head—since that’s all there is); immune to
disease and poison.
• Fear –2: Causes Fear checks at –2.
• Flight: Jet packs allow the head case to
fly at Pace 8 and Climb 0.
• Manipulator Arms: Str+d4.
• Psionics: Head cases typically have
a dozen powers and 40 or more Power
Points.
• Size –2: Head cases are slightly larger
than human skulls.
• Small: All attack rolls against a head
case suffer a –2 penalty.
LURKER
Blast zones of the Wasted West are filled
with blast architecture—girders that look like
twisted claws, building facades resembling
leering skulls, and piles of debris that look
like corpses or monsters waiting to pounce
on unsuspecting trespassers.
Lurkers grew from such fears. Each one
is a huge, hulking abomination made of
metal beams and other scraps of rusted,
jagged metal. It sits atop something of value
scavengers cannot resist and patiently waits
for prey.
 When an unwary scavenger comes to
collect the bait, the lurker comes to life.
Its metal body shrieks from the stress,
and heavy spider-like arms of steel flash
down in an attempt to impale the surprised
victim. The lurker then drains its victim of
its blood (presumably drawing out all its
iron and other minerals) and moves on to
another hunting site.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d12+3, Vigor d10
Skills: Climbing d8, Fighting d8, Notice
d6, Stealth d12+2 (when not moving and
unnoticed)
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 11
Special Abilities:
• Fear –4: Lurkers cause Fear checks at
–4.
• Fearless: Lurkers are immune to Fear
and Intimidation.
• Hardy: A second Shaken result does
not cause a wound.
• Impaling Limbs: Str+d10.
• Improved Frenzy: Lurkers gain the
Improved Frenzy Edge, allowing them to
attack with all four limbs at no penalty.
• Screeching Limbs: Once the
lurker moves, the stressed metal of its
body screeches so loudly that normal
conversation is impossible. Those who
yell can only be heard on Notice rolls at
–4.
• Size +4: Lurkers average 15’ tall but are
quite spindly.
• Coup: The hero gains +2 to Stealth rolls
made when hiding in urban areas full of
twisted metal and other debris. He just
seems to blend in with the stuff.
MAZE DRAGON
All kinds of strange creatures emerged
when California fell into the sea back in the
1800s. One of the biggest is the California
Maze dragon. These tremendous creatures
were almost hunted to extinction by the
1960s, but the Endangered Species Act made
it illegal to attack them and they made quite
a comeback by the time of Judgment Day.
Unfortunately, Maze dragons have now
proliferated to such an extent that they pose
a constant hazard to anyone navigating the
waters of the Shattered Coast.
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Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
d4, Strength d12+4, Vigor d12+2
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10, Notice
d8, Stealth d8
Pace: 0; Parry: 7; Toughness: 20
Special Abilities:
• Aquatic: Pace 10.
• Armor +2: Scales and a tough hide.
• Bite: Str+d12.
• Gargantuan: Heavy Armor; maze
dragons count as Huge, +4 to attacks by
man-sized creatures; maze dragon attacks
are Heavy Weapons; add Size to damage
when stomping.
• Size+11: These massive serpents can
range up to 50 yards long!
• Swallow: A dragon that hits with a
raise swallows man-size or smaller prey
whole. The victim suffers 2d6 damage
every round from the crushing gullet and
acidic bile. The only way to get out is to
kill the beast. On the plus side, the hero
can still attack the Maze dragon from the
inside, where the creature doesn’t benefit
from its scaly, Heavily-Armored hide!
• Coup: Maze dragons are ferocious
beasts, and impart +1 Toughness to heroes
who absorb their essence.
MIND BITER
Physically, a mind biter resembles a green
floating ball ringed with eye-like biosensors
and scores of small tentacles hanging on
its underbelly. It can maneuver itself quite
adeptly, changing direction on a dime and
reaching speeds equal to a man at a full
sprint.
Mind biters came about as part of the
countless genetic experiments performed
in the days before the Last War. Their
creators were concerned about unstable or
openly hostile sykers returning from the
war on Banshee. The biters were imbued
with an overriding urge to kill any sykers
they encountered, and equipped with the
tools to do the job.
Mind biters are genetically engineered
beings, and require little in the way
of sustenance. They tend to lurk near
population centers or in the ruins of old
communities where sykers are more likely
to be found. They think only to hunt down
sykers; normal humans hold no interest for
them, although they attack if confronted
or if prevented from completing their
“mission.” A syker’s allies won’t be spared
the biters’ tender ministrations.
Mind biters tend to operate alone, simply
because not many of them survived. They
were originally designed to work in teams
together, and two biters in one place can
cause devastating damage. Thankfully, such
cases are few. Biters are linked in a common
hive mind despite the great distances
between them. If one of them is destroyed,
the others know about it and move to
avenge their fallen brethren. A syker who
dispatches a mind biter may find herself
hounded by the species for years to come.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d12, Spirit
d12, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Notice d10, Psionics d12, Stealth d8,
Tracking d10
Pace: 8; Parry: 2; Toughness: 3
Special Abilities:
• Fear –2: Mind biters cause Fear checks
at –2.
• Psionics: Mind biters have burst, dispel,
stun, and 20 Power Points.
• Size –2: Mind biters are slightly larger
than a human head.
• Small: Because of its small size, attacks
on the mind biter are at –2 to hit.
Once the victim is in darkness, the
night haunt strikes with rending claws.
Night haunts sup on the victim’s soul, so
someone killed by a night haunt cannot
return Harrowed.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8, Spirit
d10, Strength d8, Vigor d4
Skills: Fighting d10, Notice d4, Persuasion
d8, Stealth d12
Pace: 12; Parry: 7; Toughness: 4
Special Abilities:
• Claws/Bite: Str+d10. The night haunt’s
claws ignore armor.
• Ethereal: Night haunts are immaterial
and cannot be harmed by normal weapons.
• Fear –2: Night haunts cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Fearless: Night haunts are immune to
Fear and Intimidation.
• Flight: Pace 12 Climb 3.
• Weakness (Light): Night haunts are
creatures of shadow and cannot exist in
light. Illumination as intense as a lantern
or campfire within twenty feet causes
them to make a Spirit check or suffer a
wound each round. Brighter light such as
a powerful flashlight or bonfire causes
a –2 to this roll, and intense light like a
floodlight or flare inflicts a –4 penalty.

NIGHT HAUNT
Night Haunts are solitary hunters and
twisted shadows with an unholy appetite
for living souls. They appear only as
dark shadows with jagged edges
(like thorns) and elongated clawed
hands. They appear at dusk, following
scavengers and other travelers until
they decide to strike.
Night haunts cannot abide light. If their
prey has none, they’re more than happy to
tear into prey and rely on their ethereal
ability to keep them safe.
If a victim does have illumination, the
night haunt uses its powers of mimicry
to try and draw them out of it. This is
difficult as few travelers approach a strange
noise without light, but night haunts are
amazingly successful at simply whispering
for their prey to douse their lights—there’s a
sucker born every minute.
 • Coup: A night haunt’s essence gives a
character a dark, shadowy appearance.
He may add +2 to Stealth rolls when in
Dim or Dark visibility.
NIGHT TERROR
Night terrors are hideous, harpy-like
creatures that live on the tops of ruined
skyscrapers. They range far and wide,
looking for prey and dragging the soft bits
back to their bone-covered lairs.
Besides picking off lone travelers and
scavengers in the streets below, they’ve
been known to land on aircraft wings and
rip into the thin metal with their terrible
claws. The night terror then follows the
wounded craft to the inevitable crash site
in hopes of an easy meal.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d10, Spirit
d8, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Climbing d10, Fighting d10,
Intimidation d8, Notice d10, Stealth d10
Pace: 4; Parry: 7; Toughness: 5
Special Abilities:
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fear –2: Night terrors cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Flight: Pace 12 Climb 1.
• Screech: The night terror’s unearthly
screech causes everyone within a Large
Burst Template to make a Vigor check at
–2 or be Shaken.
NINGYO
Ningyo are Japanese mermaids. They are
beautiful Asian women from the waist up
and fish with shimmering tails from the
waist down.
Ningyo eat any form of meat, but their
preference is human flesh, especially when
flavored by intense fear. When about to feed,
the ningyo’s jaws unhinge, exposing their
shark-like mouths, and their eyes bulge out
in greedy anticipation of meat.
Humans are just as keen to dine on the
ningyo as the ningyo are to dine on them.
This is because the ningyo are immortal,
and eating their flesh can turn the diner
immortal as well. What few of these pursuers
realize, however, is that most people who
dine on ningyo flesh become immortal by
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turning into ningyo themselves. Only rarely
does someone eat of the ningyo and retain
his own humanity.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d12, Notice
d8, Persuasion d12, Swimming d8, Tracking
d8, Throwing d6
Pace: 2; Parry: 6; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
• Aquatic: Pace 10.
• Beauty: Ningyo are beautiful women,
and have a +2 Charisma bonus when
dealing with those attracted to the fairer
sex.
• Bite: Str+d6.
• Fear –2: Ningyo cause Fear checks at
–2 (when revealed).
• Immortal Flesh: If someone consumes
the flesh of a ningyo, they must draw
seven cards from a full deck. If both
Jokers are drawn, the person becomes
immortal but remains human. Otherwise,
he mutates into a ningyo over the course
of a week.
PREDAVORE
This feared creature is in fact a completely
natural beast, and one native to the planet,
though not to the current era. The predavore
is actually a pteranodon, the ancient flying
dinosaur. The predavore owes its return to
the folks at Pentacorp, who decided in the
2070s to experiment with fossil DNA and
examine the possibility of cloning ancient
beasts from such material. Interestingly
enough, most of the dinosaurs proved
difficult to reproduce, but the pteranodon
sternbergi proved more amenable than
its cousins the velociraptor and the
tyrannosaurus. Pentacorp’s scientists were
able to create several of the ancient fliers
from the original fossilized remains. More
standard breeding procedures were then
used, and eventually Pentacorp had entire
aeries of the creatures hidden from even
their own lower level personnel. Then the
bombs dropped.
The predavores are now loose in the
Wasted West, and one of the many reasons
smart people avoid wide open spaces at
night. Predavores are deadly hunters, with
excellent night vision, the ability to glide
almost noiselessly for long distances, and
lethal accuracy with their long, spear-like
beaks. Predavores make their nests in tall
trees or at the top of cliffs and carry their
prey home to feed.
Predavores are flying reptiles, with an
average wingspan of 25–30 feet. Their heads
are close to six feet long, with spear-like
beaks and prominent crests. Their claws
are twice the size of a man’s hand—useless
as weapons, though excellent for climbing.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d8, Strength d10, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d12, Notice d10, Stealth d12
Pace: 4; Parry: 8; Toughness: 15 (1)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +1: Thick hide.
• Beak: Str+d8.
• Death from Above: A flying predavore
that hits with a raise causes damage as
usual. In addition, the thing skewers its
prey on its spear-like beak, swoops into
the air, then lets go before it can be hit by
its victim’s flailing. The drop is typically
from 20 yards, so the damage is 2d6+10.
Characters on Hold or who have not yet
taken their action may attempt to hold
on by making an opposed Strength roll. If
successful, the prey continues to struggle.
With a raise, the victim forces the creature
close enough to a landing spot to jump
free without taking damage.
• Fear: Predavores cause Fear checks.
• Flight: Pace 10 Climb 0.
• Large: All attacks on the predavore are
at +2 to hit because of its large size.
• Low Light Vision: Predavores have
very good night vision, ignoring penalties
for Dim and Dark lighting.
• Size +6: The predavore is a very large
creature with a massive wingspan of
20’–30’ and weighing over 3000 lbs.
RADRAT
Radrats are regular rats that survived
the Last War and became radioactive and
far more intelligent. These nasty little
buggers roam in packs of a hundred or
more, stalking prey through ruined city
streets. At the first sign of weakness such
as a stunned or downed hero, or when a
big weapon obviously runs out of ammo
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(they’re very smart), they scramble from
thousands of hidey-holes and swarm over
the unfortunate victims.
Radrat claws rend and their sharp teeth
rip strips of flesh. Then suddenly, they
retreat! What the victim may not know is
that he’s very likely contracted a severe
form of radiation sickness that kills him
in minutes. After that, the radrats move in
for the easy meal. In the rush to beat their
brothers and sisters to the gravy train, they
often begin consuming their victim before
he actually passes on.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6 (A), Spirit
d6, Strength d4, Vigor d6
Skills: Climbing d8, Notice d8, Stealth d8,
Swimming d8
Pace: 10; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
Special Abilities:
• Bite/Claws: Radrats automatically
cause 2d4 damage to everyone in the
template.
• Fear: Radrat swarms cause Fear checks.
• Infection: When a character is Shaken
or wounded by radrats, he must make a
Vigor roll or contract radiation sickness
(see Radiation in Savage Worlds). Treat
the infected as being in constant low
level radiation (the victim must roll every
hour). Since the radiation is in the blood,
only arcane healing can stop its effects
(but does so immediately).
• Swarm: Parry +2; cutting or piercing
weapons do no damage; area effect
weapons work normally, and a character
can inflict his damage in Strength by
stomping. A radrat swarm fills a Medium
Burst Template.
• Tenacious: When a main swarm of
radrats take a wounding hit, it splits
into two smaller swarms (Small Burst
Templates).
RATTLER
They call these great worms “rattlers”
because a person’s teeth start chattering
as the rattler rumbles through the earth
beneath him. Though they are most common
in the Mojave, rattlers are also found in
isolated flatlands in Montana and Utah. The
rattlers of each region tend to have their
own colors and even personalities.
 Mojave rattlers go straight for the kill,
while the ones in Montana are skulkers.
Utah rattlers are smaller but faster, and
they absolutely love to chase steam
wagons across the great Salt Flats. Like
Maze dragons, rattlers are accepted near
the regions they terrorize. Folks Back East
think Westerners exaggerate, but the locals
know better.
The greatest secret of the rattlers is that
they’re not creatures of the Reckoning. They
were awakened by it, however. Long ago,
the rattlers were a race of near-gods, ruling
over the primordial creatures of Earth’s
past. Their reign ended under mysterious
circumstances, but they have been slowly
attempting to recruit new worshippers from
the odd creatures (humans) who now tread
upon their former domain.
When a rattler moves in for the kill, it
bursts up through the earth and tries to
snag its prey with one of its tentacles.
Though they have many tentacles, they
never attempt to capture multiple targets
unless their intended victims are very
close together, such as a horse and rider,
preferring to focus on a single quarry.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d8, Spirit d8,
Strength d12+6, Vigor d12+2
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d10, Notice
d8, Stealth d8
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 26 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: The worms are covered
in thick, scaly skin. Clothing made of
rattler hide (available only through a few
merchants in the Southwest for hundreds
of dollars per article) grants Armor +1.
• Bite: Str+d12.
• Burrowing: 18”.
• Fear –2: Rattlers cause Fear checks at
–2.
• Gargantuan: Heavy Armor. Rattlers
count as Huge, +4 to attacks by man-sized
creatures. Using its massive bulk, a rattler
can slam itself down upon a foe or an
obstacle. Add Size bonus to Strength
for damage. Rattlers can affect an area
equivalent to a Cone Template with their
slam attack.
• Seismic Sensors: Rattlers sense their
prey by vibrations in the sand. They can
detect the movement of a man up to 100”
(200 yards) distant. This is an opposed
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Notice versus Stealth if the prey is trying
to step lightly (–2 if running), otherwise
just a Notice roll for the rattler. Horses are
detected at double the distance, vehicles
at triple.
• Size +15: The great worms are well over
50 yards long!
• Tentacles: Rattler tentacles are 20”
long. Once they grapple a target, they
begin dragging them toward their maw.
Each success and raise on an opposed
Strength roll drags the victim 1d6” closer
to the hungry mouth. Each tentacle can
take a single wound, but has a Toughness
of 12. Bullets and impaling weapons cause
half damage, while blunt attacks inflict
no damage. Wounds inflicted on tentacles
do not harm the rattler.
• Weakness (Nerve Cluster): Rattlers
have a cluster of nerves deep in their
bodies at the nexus of their tentacles. If
targeted with a called shot (–6), damage
ignores both the Size modifier and Heavy
Armor of the rattler. Of course, the danger
is in getting close enough to the rattler to
take the shot!
• Coup: Whoever counts coup on one
of these great worms gains the ability to
burrow up to 5 x their Spirit (as per the
Monstrous Ability).
RIVER LEVIATHAN
The river leviathan, sometimes known
as a “river fiend,” is an octopus altered by
the Reckoners into a monster about 40
feet across, with tentacles about 20 feet in
length. Most of the time, this critter sits on
the bottom of a river, tentacles extended
upward to grab prey. It can also rise to the
surface of the water, and sometimes adopts
a wrecked ship or other large object as an
improvised shell before it goes off in search
of prey.
Whether the leviathan is actively hunting
or lying in ambush, it first attacks with its
long tentacles. In fact, many victims see
nothing of the critter but the tentacles,
which they sometimes believe are black,
eyeless snakes. Those who live past their
capture, though, might just catch a glimpse
of the leviathan’s body before the tentacle
deposits them in the thing’s mouth.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
d12, Strength d12+4, Vigor d12+4
Skills: Fighting d12, Notice d6, Stealth d8
Pace: 0; Parry: 8; Toughness: 24 (5)
Special Abilities:
• Aquatic: Pace 12.
• Armor +5: Shipwrecks or waterfront
houses.
• Fear –2: River leviathans cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Gargantuan: Heavy Armor. River
leviathans count as Huge, +4 to attacks
by man-sized creatures. As an aquatic
creature, it cannot bring its full weight to
bear when stomping (using a tentacle to
slam). Instead, add only half Size (round
down) to damage when stomping.
• Size +9: These gigantic abominations
average some 40’ across with tentacles
over 20’ long.
• Swallow: A leviathan that hits with a
raise on its tentacle attack automatically
grapples its target. The victim has two
rounds to escape before the leviathan
pops the poor cowpoke into its maw.
Characters dragged into the water while
grappled must succeed at a Vigor roll
every round or start to drown (see Savage
Worlds rules). Those swallowed whole
suffer 2d6 damage per round from the
thing’s digestive juices. If the leviathan is
killed, any surviving swallowed victims
are likely to drown unless they can make
an Agility roll to escape the vile beast’s
now slack gullet.
• Tentacle: Str+d10, Reach 10.
RIVER WORM
River worms are found in the Mississippi
and its larger tributaries. They look like
black rubbery serpents close to twelve feet
in length and three to five inches around.
They hatch from silvery eggs the size of golf
balls, which are deposited at the bottom of
a lake or river and sometimes get washed
downstream by storms or strong currents.
River worms cluster in groups of a dozen
or more and lay in the deepest and coldest
part of their river or lake. As soon as the
water above them is disturbed, the pack
moves at full-speed toward the surface
and their potential dinner. The monsters
attack by swarming over their prey and
ramming it with their blunt, hard heads
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until it’s stunned. Then they begin to bite
with savage teeth. When blood is drawn,
the entire group frenzies, squirming in
the water until it turns to reddish foam,
attacking again and again until nothing but
bones remain.
River worms have an additional weapon
they use if their prey seems particularly
resistant. They can deliver an electric shock
strong enough to stun a full-grown human.
Even larger creatures, like actual Maze
dragons, avoid river worms when possible-
-the combination of numbers, teeth,
headbutts, and electricity is more than the
slippery serpents are worth.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d4, Strength d6, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10, Notice
d10, Stealth d10, Swimming d10
Pace: 1; Parry: 7; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
• Aquatic: Pace 8.
• Electric Surge: 3d6 damage in a
Medium Burst Template.
• Bite: Str+d4.
• Fear –2: River worms cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Headbutt: Str+d8.
• Improved Frenzy: When a river worm
detects blood in the water (typically after
causing a wound to a living creature), it
gains an additional attack each round
with no multi-action penalty.
• Size –1: River worms are long but thin.
RUST MITE
Rust mites are tiny insects with sharp-
edged carapaces the color of rust. The
creatures travel in large groups, creating a
reddish cloud roughly ten feet in diameter.
Fortunately, this and the loud buzzing noise
from their wings make the rust mites easy
to spot from a distance.
Rust mites are not actually dangerous to
people since they have no interest in flesh.
They eat metal instead, and always target
the largest metallic object in their vicinity.
They can detect metal up to a quarter mile
away, and always descend in a full swarm.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d12, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Notice d6
Pace: 10; Parry: 4; Toughness: 7 Once caught, prey is dragged up to the
Special Abilities: wall and devoured. Scrawlers only consume
• Fear: Rust mites cause a Fear check (–2 organic materials, so most have a pile of
to the roll for Junkers). equipment at its base, the legacy of previous
• Metallophagic: Rust mites auto­ mati­ victims and a lure for future ones.
cally cause 2d8 damage to every piece of
Attributes: Agility d12, Smarts d6, Spirit
equipment made of metal in the template.
d8, Strength d10, Vigor d8
If the target is inanimate the damage does
Skills: Fighting d12, Notice d6, Stealth d12
not ace as usual. Metals softer than steel
Pace: 2; Parry: 8; Toughness: 13 (3)
typically have a Toughness of 8, steel
Special Abilities:
10, hardened steel 12, harder metals like
• Armor +3: Scrawlers are composed of
titanium 14, and ghost steel 16.
the concrete walls they’re painted on.
• Swarm: Parry +2; cutting or piercing
• Claws/Teeth/Stingers: Str+d10, AP 1,
weapons do no damage; area effect
Reach 2.
weapons work normally, and a character
• Construct: +2 to Toughness; +2 to
can inflict his damage in Strength by
recover from being Shaken; no extra
stomping. A rust mite swarm fills a
damage from called shots; immune to
Medium Burst Template.
disease and poison.
• Tenacious: If a swarm of rust mites
• Fear –2: Scrawlers cause Fear checks
takes a wound, it splits into two smaller
at –2 once they come to life.
swarms (Small Burst Templates).
• Improved Sweep: Can attack all
• Weakness (Magnets): Magnets repel
creatures within reach of its tentacles.
rust mites, with small magnets (kitchen
• Size +2: Scrawlers usually take up a 10’
magnets) setting up a barrier equal to a
square section of wall.
Small Burst Template and larger magnets
• Urban Camouflage: Scawlers look
up to a Medium or Large Burst Template.
like disturbing pieces of graffiti, and gain
+3 to Stealth rolls to surprise prey.
SCRAWLER
Before the Last War, graffiti was common STORM CROW
in most large cities: urban youth would
Storm crows are flocks of crows crackling
scrawl strange, stylized words and images
with supernatural electricity. They tend to
on walls, billboards, and street signs,
appear in the wake of hellstorms or other
marking their territory and often sending
violent atmospheric phenomena.
messages to one another. Government
officials often stated that the graffiti was Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
a sign of urban disease, visible proof that d4, Strength d6, Vigor d6
all was not right within the city’s confines. Skills: Intimidation d6, Notice d6
Pace: 8; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
Then the Last War came and Pestilence
Special Abilities:
strode the earth. The Reckoner decided
• Bite/Claws: Storm crows automatically
that these scrawls could be some form
cause 2d4 damage to everyone in the
of disease, and claimed them as such. It
template.
created a servitor dubbed the Maestro, and
• Flight: Pace 24, Climb 2.
unleashed him to create new and monstrous
• Short Circuit: Anyone who suffers a
scrawls across the land.
wound or more from a storm crow swarm
A scrawler looks like a disturbing piece must roll 1d4 per wound taken, with the
of urban graffiti, usually a scene of death result being the number of gadgets that
and violence. These roughly ten-foot square are damaged and must be repaired. This
murals are alive and attack anyone foolish die does not ace.
enough to step in range. The scrawler can • Swarm: Parry +2; cutting or piercing
grow long tentacles, complete with fangs, weapons do no damage; area effect
mouths, stingers, and other nasty bits, and weapons work normally, and a character
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 can inflict his damage in Strength by
stomping. Storm crows fill a Medium
Burst Template.
• Tenacious: If a swarm of storm crows
takes a wound, it splits into two smaller
swarms (Small Burst Templates).
• Weakness (Water): Water disrupts the
electrical aura of the storm crow swarm.
Water can be thrown as an improvised
weapon (see Savage Worlds). A pint is
considered small, a quart is medium, and
a gallon is a large improvised weapon.
TEXAS RAZORS
These deadly creatures first appeared
in the Texas panhandle, hence their name,
but some have been sighted (and fought)
in Kansas and Oklahoma. Razors delight
in causing havoc and destruction, and race
across the plains searching for farms and
other isolated buildings to destroy. They
particularly enjoy carving people into the
smallest bits possible.
Razors resemble oversized pit pulls with
massive chests and longer front legs. Their
rear legs are built like those of a jackrabbit
with elongated feet. This allows them to
run at extremely high speeds. The entire
creature is made of some biological metal
alloy, alive but as durable as aluminum,
and coils of razor wire hang at either side.
The razors can uncoil these wires at will
and lash out with them like whips, striking
at people or even tightening to rip prey to
shreds. The beast’s wide mouth contains
several rows of sharp metal teeth which
can strip a body bare of flesh in a matter
of seconds.
Razors rarely attack large cities or
fortified communities, preferring to target
smaller settlements or single buildings.
They enjoy causing fear and deliberately hit
the outer buildings first to let the survivors
regroup and watch the devastation. When
everyone is terrified, the razors regroup and
charge into the center of the area killing
anything in their path.
Attributes: Agility d12, Smarts d6(A), Spirit
d10, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d12, Intimidation d8, Notice
d6
Pace: 12 Parry: 8; Toughness: 12 (3)
Special Abilities:
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• Armor +3: Razors have metallic flesh.
• Bite: Str+d8.
• Fear –4: Texas razors cause Fear checks
at –4.
• Improved Fleet-Footed: Razors
can run as a free action and have a d10
running die.
• Improved Frenzy: Texas razors can
make an extra attack with their razor
wire at no penalty.
• Razor Wire: Str+d8, AP 1, Reach 2.
• Size +2: Razors are brawny killers.
THUNDER SPAWN
Thunder spawn are essentially giant
jellyfish, vast amorphous blobs of
gelatinous flesh with 60’ long translucent
tentacles below. The thunder spawn have
large air sacs at top, vast bladders filled
with lighter-than-air gasses. These allow
them to float through the air as easily as a
jellyfish moves through the water, not only
rising and descending but shifting sideways
as well.
Thunder spawn cannot survive in dry air
or heat. They live within thunder clouds
surrounded by cool moisture. The only time
they emerge is during storms when the rain
and clouds have dropped the temperature
and raised the humidity to acceptable
levels. Then the thunder spawn come down
to feed.
The creatures are vaguely purplish with
pulsing veins throughout and great black
saucer-like eyes, but the storms provide
cover and make them difficult to spot until
they swoop in for the kill. Each creature has
three long, bone-white beaks on its belly,
and these snap hungrily as it descends to
hunt.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8(A), Spirit
d10, Strength d12, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d10, Notice d8, Stealth d12
(from air)
Pace: 2; Parry: 7; Toughness: 17(3)
Special Abilities:
• Acid-Coated Tentacles:
Thunderspawn have 10 tentacles coated in
acid, dealing Str+2d6 damage each, Reach
10”.
• Armor +3: Thunder spawn have tough,
leathery hides.
• Beak: Str+d8
 • Fear –2: Thunder spawns cause Fear Silas Rasmussen, the Mutant King of
checks at –2. Las Vegas, uses trogs as expendable shock
• Flight: Pace 10, Climb –2. troops, absorbing the brunt of a resistant
• Large: All attacks against the creature community’s ammunition before sending
are at +2 because of its large size. in more valuable mutants. Over 1,000 trogs
• Size +7: Thunder spawns have bodies live in the ruins of old Las Vegas. If not for
the size of a compact car. Silas ordering them into suicidal charges,
• Tentacle Grab: If a thunder spawn that number would be growing by the day.
gets a raise on its Fighting roll, it grabs
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4, Spirit d6,
the victim in addition to doing normal
Strength d10, Vigor d12
damage. It then starts pulling the prey to
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d8, Notice
its maw, which occurs at the beginning
d6, Survival d6, Swimming d6, Throwing d6,
of its next action. The victim needs to
Tracking d6
get a raise on an opposed Strength roll to
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 9
free himself. A tentacle can be attacked
Gear: Thrown chunks of rubble (Range
with a Called Shot at –2; this bypasses the
3/6/12, Damage Str+d4), large club with
thunder spawn’s Armor and releases the
nails (Str+d6).
target on a Shaken result. The tentacle is
Special Abilities:
severed if an attack on it does a wound or
• Fear: Trogs cause Fear checks.
more , but this does not cause a wound to
• Immunity (Radiation): Trogs are
the creature itself, which is only Shaken.
immune to regular radiation and have
• Weakness (Bladders): The thunder
Improved Arcane Resistance versus
spawn’s air bladders are extremely
Doomsayer powers.
delicate. A hero who causes a wound
• Size +1: Trogs are large and muscular.
from a called shot targeted at the bladder
(–2 to hit) causes the beast to plummet to
its death. Unfortunately, they can only be URBAN WYRM
targeted from above the creature.
Not every dangerous beast was created
• Weakness (Heat): Thunder spawn are
by the ghost rock explosions. Some had
extremely susceptible to heat, sunlight,
existed for a long time, and the urban
and dry air. Any fire or heat-based attack
wyrms are among those. These enormous
causes +4 damage.
creatures live far below the surface, digging
tunnels through rock and dirt and snatching
TROG up food with their long tentacles. When the
bombs fell, the wyrms felt the tremors and
Trogs are the most pitiable mutants.
investigated. To their delight, they discovered
They are lost souls who have become
exciting new tunnels already dug for them
deformed beyond belief but are too stupid
and filled with tasty soft-skinned prey.
and stubborn to die. They do not breed,
but simply wait for less-mutated souls to The body of the urban wyrm is two or
eventually succumb to the Glow’s warped three stories tall and encased in a steel-hard
embrace. Then they are ready to join the shell like those of undersea tube worms.
trogs’ numbers. The shells are anchored firmly to the rock
around them, and are almost impossible
Trogs gather in large groups of a
to move. Most people never see the urban
hundred or more, bowing to the strongest
wyrm’s body, however. What people
and most fearsome of the lot. Ferocity is a
encounter are the creature’s tentacles. Each
commodity in their savage tribes. Settling
wyrm has ten to twenty, and the tentacles
things peacefully means screaming at the
themselves are thousands of yards long,
top of their lungs, beating their chests, or
mottled gray, and end in hinged jaws wide
smashing rubble with their clubs. When
enough to swallow a man whole. The
that doesn’t work, trogs fight to the death
tentacles possess their own sensors and
while the rest gather around and watch the
dig or explore tunnels around the wyrm,
carnage.
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 Urban wyrms only send one tentacle at a
time down any particular corridor. Because
of this, and because their bodies are buried
so deep in the earth, most people think
each tentacle is a separate creature, like an
underground version of the river worm.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d12+4, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d8, Notice d6, Stealth d8
Pace: 24; Parry: 6; Toughness: 24(6) and
tentacle 16(2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +6: Steel-hard shell.
• Bite: Str+d8.
• Fear –2: Urban wyrms cause Fear
checks at –2.
• Gargantuan: The main body of the
urban wyrm has Heavy Armor. Urban
wyrms count as Huge, +4 to be hit by
attacks by man-sized creatures.
• Size +10: The wyrm’s body is three to
four stories tall! Its tentacles are Size +6,
being thousands of yards long.
• Swallow: If the wyrm tentacle gets
two raises on an attacker, it does normal
damage and swallows the target whole.
The victim takes 2d6 each round from
digestive juices. The only way out is to
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make a hole with a shotgun or cutting
weapon, requiring a Wound on the
tentacle’s Toughness.
• Tentacles: The urban wyrm’s tentacles
act independently of the body, only have
Armor +2, and one can be destroyed by
causing a Wound to it. The tentacles are
also Large, not Huge, giving a +2 bonus to
attacks against it.
• Coup: The urban wyrm is such a large
beast that it imparts +1 Size to the hero
who absorbs its essence.
WALL CRAWLER
Since the days of the Civil War, these
creepy creatures were a threat to anyone
who walked through a canyon or under
a cliff. Since the Last War, some of them
have remained in those old locations, but
many others have migrated into the cities
and taken up roosts on the sides of ruined
skyscrapers or shattered office buildings.
Wall crawlers look like a mix between a
spider, a lizard, and a coil of organic barbed
wire, all legs and tails and teeth and sharp
edges. They rely primarily on their stealth
and speed, lurking completely motionless
until prey is directly below. Then they sprint
down the wall at them, the only sound the
faint click of their claws against the metal
or stone.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d4(A), Spirit
d6, Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10, Notice
d8, Stealth d12
Pace: 10; Parry: 7; Toughness: 8 (2)
Special Abilities:
• Armor +2: Wall crawlers have thick
spiny hides.
• Bite: Str+d8.
• Charge: Wall crawlers charge on their
first round of attack, gaining +2 to hit
and damage as they scramble down from
their high perches.
• Fleet-Footed: Wall crawlers roll a d10
when running instead of d6.
• Quick: Wall crawlers discard Action
Cards of 5 or lower.
• Wall Crawling: Wall crawlers can
move over any moderately rough vertical
surface at their normal Pace and can even
move along overhangs at half Pace.
WALKIN’ DEAD
There are a lot of corpses lying about the
Wasted West. Don’t be surprised when some
of them get up and start chasing folks.
Walkin’ dead are animated corpses
temporarily inhabited by manitous. They’re
very common in ruined cities, creepy old
graveyards, mausoleums, battlefields, or
any other large concentration of bodies.
Regular walkin’ dead are mainly civilians
animated by manitous, while veteran
walkin’ dead are raised from a battlefield,
a military cemetery, or the like. Both forms
are fast and mean. Sometimes they act like
the slow, arms-out type, but that’s only to
fool folks into letting them close enough
to bite.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d4,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d6, Notice
d4, Shooting d6, Stealth d8
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 7
Gear: Guns (various)
Special Abilities:
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fearless: Walkin’ dead are immune to
Fear and Intimidation.
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• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage from
called shots (except to the head), immune
to disease and poison.
• Weakness (Head): Attacks to a walkin’
dead’s head are +2 damage for a total of
+6.
Veteran Walkin’ Dead
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d4,
Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Climbing d8, Fighting d8, Intimidation
d6, Notice d10, Shooting d8, Stealth d8
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 8
Gear: Guns (various)
Special Abilities:
• Claws/Bite: Str+d4.
• Fearless: Walkin’ dead are immune to
Fear and Intimidation.
• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease and
poison.
• Weakness (Head): Attacks to a walkin’
dead’s head are +2 damage for a total of
+6.
Bloat
Bloats are waterlogged walkin’ dead
that have been submerged in water for
at least a year. The water reacts with the
corpse’s tissues, turning most of it into a
waxy, soap-like substance called adipocere.
Adipocere is lighter than normal flesh, but
also a good deal bulkier.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d4, Stealth
d6, Swimming d6, Tracking d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 8
Special Abilities:
• Claws: Str+d6.
• Fear: The bloat’s flesh is pale and
distended, hence the name bloat. The
swollen features make the creature’s eyes
look like foggy black marbles, and in
general, their appearance is quite repulsive
compared to regular walkin’ dead.
• Fearless: Bloats are immune to Fear
and Intimidation.
• Stench: The adipocere causes a bloat
to reek with an overpowering stench.
Anyone adjacent to a bloat must make
 a Vigor roll or be Shaken from violent
retching. The roll is made only once per
encounter.
• Undead: +2 Toughness, +2 to recover
from being Shaken. Called shots do no
extra damage. Immune to disease and
poison.
• Weakness (Alcohol): Bloats are
particularly susceptible to alcohol, which
causes their flesh to bubble and burn
on contact like acid. If hit with at least
8oz or more of strong alcohol, a bloat is
automatically Shaken.
• Weakness (Head): Shots to a bloat’s
head are +2 damage.
Toxic Zombie
Desperate travelers who drink and die
from toxic ponds sometimes rise as walkin’
dead tainted by the poisons that killed
them. Their stained flesh drips off them in
soggy rivulets, and corroded finger bones
poke through what remains of their hands
to form deadly claws. Toxic zombies lurk
just below the surface of these ponds and
attack any who come too near their lair.
When a traveler approaches to test the
water, the zombies rise all around, hurling
toxic goo dredged from the sludge of their
home. If the prey survives and runs, the
toxic zombies give chase, but rarely more
than 30 yards or so from their pond.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d6, Stealth
d8, Swimming d8, Throwing d8
Pace: 4; Parry: 6; Toughness: 8
Special Abilities:
• Acid: If a character is Shaken or
wounded by a toxic zombie, roll a d6. On a
1, a randomly chosen piece of equipment
is damaged by the toxic zombie’s touch
and must be repaired.
• Claws/Bite: Str+d8.
• Fear –2: Toxic zombies cause a Fear
check at –2.
• Fearless: Toxic zombies are immune to
Fear and Intimidation.
• Goo-Bombs: These are blobs of acid
and other hazardous waste scooped
from the bottom of their putrid homes.
Goo-bombs have a range of 3/6/12 and
cause 2d8 damage.
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• Undead: +2 to Toughness; +2 to recover
from being Shaken; no extra damage
from called shots; immune to disease and
poison.
• Coup: If an entire lair is wiped out,
there is no permanent coup, but all who
attempted to count coup may drink from
the sludge pond as if it were clean water
for the next 1d6 days.
The Reckoners’ Touch
The arrival of the Reckoners on earth
allowed them to infuse their own foot
soldiers, the walkin’ dead, with more of their
personal power. These walkin’ dead have
abilities tied directly to the one they serve.
Once distinguished from “normal” walkin’
dead, these creatures all have the Fear
ability. Otherwise, use the normal walkin’
dead stats with the specific additions below.
Death: Death’s walking dead are animated
by more powerful manitous than others.
They are all Wild Cards with a Spirit of d8
instead of d4. These guys are nasty, Marshal.
Famine: Famine’s walkin’ dead are known
as faminites. They can increase their ranks
with frightening speed.
• Infection: Anyone so much as nicked
(Shaken or wounded by bite or claw) by a
faminite joins their ranks in 24 hours. Wild
Cards can avoid this fate with a successful
Vigor roll (–2), but Extras are doomed to
become faminites. During this time, the
victim becomes increasingly hungry and
thin. Her fingernails lengthen and turn
into sharp, infectious claws. Only death,
healing at -2, or greater healing can stop
the disease’s progress. If the character
using the power fails the roll, she has to
make her own Vigor roll (–2) or become
infected as well.
Pestilence: Pestilence’s walkin’ dead are
commonly called plague zombies. They
spread sickness wherever they appear.
• Plague Touch: If a victim is Shaken or
wounded by direct contact with a plague
zombie, he must make a Vigor roll. Failure
indicates transmission of a necrotic
rotting disease (Short Term, Lethal).
Anyone who comes in contact with the
victim, must also make a Vigor roll or
 contract the disease as well. Needless to
say, plague zombies should be avoided
at all costs, and dealt with by ranged
weapons if unavoidable.
War: The walkin’ dead of War are most
commonly reanimated soldiers, with better
weapons and armor than other walkin’
dead. Shooting and Fighting are increased
a die type plus they have Throwing at a d6.
• Combat Mastery: All of War’s walking
dead have the Edges Frenzy and Rock and
Roll. Veteran walkin’ dead have Improved
Frenzy and Marksman in addition.
WENDIGO
Winters can be very tough in the
northwestern reaches of America. The cold
is so savage it can drive men and women
to resort to the unthinkable to survive:
cannibalism. But there is a price to be paid
for such a feast, and it’s a high one.
Wendigos are the damned and twisted
spirits of those who consumed their fellows
to survive. Their eerie howls can be heard
in just about any cold climate, particularly
in the Cascade Mountains of the Northwest.
They might also appear in more southern
areas during harsh winters, but return
north as it grows warmer. Wendigos crave
one simple thing: human flesh to feed the
gnawing hunger in their bellies.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8, Spirit
d8, Strength d12+2, Vigor d12
Skills: Climbing d12, Fighting d12,
Intimidation d12, Notice d10, Swimming d10,
Stealth d10, Throwing d10, Tracking d10
Pace: 8; Parry: 8; Toughness: 8
Special Abilities:
• Claws: Str+d6.
• Fear –1: Anyone encountering a wendigo
must make a Fear check at –1.
• Fearless: Wendigos are immune to
Fear and Intimidation.
• Immunities: Wendigos are immune to
cold and cold-based attacks or effects.
• Night Vision: A wendigo can see in all
but complete darkness as if daylight.
• Weakness (Hot Tallow): A wendigo
is instantly killed if someone manages
to pour hot tallow down its throat. Good
luck with that one, friend.
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• Coup: A waster who feasts on a
wendigo’s essence gains immunity to cold
and cold-based attacks.
WOLFLING
Survivors who live near the Cascade
Mountains tell of the wolflings, predatory
half-man half-wolf beasts with pure white
coats. These feral creatures live in the lost
valleys of the Cascade Range and venture
out only to prey upon mankind, although
in the years following Judgment Day the
wolflings and their masters the wendigos
seem to be ranging further and further
afield. The wolflings have honed their pack
hunting tactics to a fine bloody point. The
pack creatures differ from werewolves in
that they do not change from human to
animal form, but remain savage beasts
regardless of the phases of the moon.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit
d10, Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Climbing d10, Fighting d10,
Intimidation d8, Notice d10, Stealth d12,
Survival d8, Swimming d10, Tracking d12
Pace: 10; Parry: 7; Toughness: 6
Special Abilities:
• Bite: Str+d6.
• Go for the Throat: Like wolves,
wolflings instinctively go for an opponent’s
soft spots. With a raise on its attack roll,
a wolfling hits its target’s most lightly
armored location.
• Improved Frenzy: The wolfling may
make two Fighting attacks each round at
no penalty.
• Pack Tactics: Wolflings gain a damage
bonus on their attack roll equal to their
gang up bonus.
WILLOW WIGHT
Not every manitou selected an animal
or a person as its home. Some chose flora
instead, sacrificing mobility for stability
and camouflage. These spirits settled
into the hearts of young willow trees and
altered them as they grew, corrupting the
trees until they became full-fledged willow
wights—undead trees.
 A willow wight’s branches are twisted Special Abilities:
and gnarled into unnatural shapes, its bark • Animate Dead: Willow wights can
black and shot through with pulsing green create walkin’ dead out of corpses buried
veins; its trunk distended with evil-looking among its roots. They can control a
tumors oozing a faintly glowing green sap. number of walkin’ dead equal to their
Spirit die type, with a range of up to 12”
The malevolent trees cannot move, but
per die type.
that doesn’t make them any less dangerous,
• Armor +4: Thick bark.
for willow wights possess the power to
• Fear –2: Willow wights cause Fear
animate and control the dead. Any creature
checks at –2 once its true nature is
buried in reach of the tree’s roots falls
revealed.
under its spell and reanimates as one of its
• Huge: Attacks made on the willow
faithful walkin’ dead.
wight are +4 due to its immense size.
The tree can sense events within its root • Illusions: Willow wights can create
system, a few hundred feet around it, and illusions that take in everyone within 10”
knows when people are nearby. The tree per die type (with d8 being 80”). These
then casts its illusions. First it conceals itself illusions can include audio and visual
as a normal tree, then it creates an illusion aspects and can be projected onto objects,
of warmth and security suited to its new structures, or its undead servants. Cameras
audience. Its undead servants are masked and other recording devices aren’t fooled
as well, and become the characters in this by it, but if inspected within range of the
twisted performance. A troop of weary illusion, the willow wight might fool a
soldiers might find a welcoming campfire viewer into seeing a  playback consistent
with fellow soldiers gathered around it. A with the illusion. Those affected by the
lonely traveler might find a pretty young illusion get a Smarts roll at –6 every hour
lady sitting beside a picturesque lake.
The willow wight can only create illusions—
the images have no real substance—but by
laying its images over its own servants,
it gains actors for the part: the man
kissing the young lady is holding
a real woman, although she is
dead and rotting now, and the
soldiers around the fire can help
their companions tether horses
and set aside equipment, though
their skulls are stripped of flesh
and their real uniforms only moldy
tatters.
The goal of such performances is
to set the newcomers at ease. When
they relax, the undead turn on them. Any
who are killed are buried at the base of
the willow wight to add to its “cast.”
Fortunately, willow wights have one
major weakness. They are powerless
from dawn to dusk, and can neither
create illusions nor animate their
servants during that time.
Attributes: Agility -, Smarts d10, Spirit d8,
Strength -, Vigor d8
Skills: Intimidation d12, Notice d10
Pace: -; Parry: -; Toughness: 18 (4)
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On a success, something seems off, on a
raise they see through the entire illusion.
• Size +8: Willow wights are immense
gnarled trees. Some grow larger, up to
Size +10. For each additional point of Size
increase the willow wight’s Spirit a die
type.
• Weakness (Daylight): Willow wights
go dormant in the daylight hours. If
located during the day, the willow wight
is at the mercy of its enemies.
WORMLING
Most people have no idea where
wormlings come from, and they don’t
care. New wormlings aren’t popped out of
their mama, they don’t hatch from eggs,
and they’re not brought by the stork. New
wormlings are created from human beings.
Not all humans captured by wormlings
end up as a snack. The unlucky ones are
cocooned in the queen’s chamber and
turned into fresh wormlings. The queen
pulls off this nifty trick by ramming one of
her oversized tentacles down the victim’s
throat. The tentacle provides nourishment
to the wormling-to-be and also floods
his system with a viral form of DNA that
transforms the unfortunate victim into a
wormling in 3–5 days.
Wormlings are divided into two major
types: workers and warriors. Workers are
the grunts of the wormling hierarchy
and are the most commonly encountered
by surface dwellers, normally hunting in
packs of 6 to 10. They are responsible for
gathering food for the warriors and queens
and capturing new “recruits” for the nest.
Besides being able to use their acid as a
weapon, “worker” wormlings can also use
it as a powerful tool. They use the acid to
dissolve the bones of their victims, and then
they mix the resulting slop with a mouthful
of dirt. They can regurgitate this glop and
use it as a building tool. Once it dries, it’s
nearly as hard as concrete. They use this to
shore up the main passageways of the nest
and also to cocoon prisoners while they
undergo transmutation into wormlings.
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Warriors are seldom seen by the outside
world. Their sole duty is to guard the nest
and to protect the queen from harm. They
rarely leave the nest except in times of
emergency.
Larger than the workers, warriors favor
their Mojave rattler ancestors and lack legs.
Instead, they hump along inchworm-style.
Warriors can produce the same cement-
like glop the workers do, but instead of
building with it, they use it for personal
protection. Warriors cover the segments of
their body with the stuff, and it dries into
a hard, armored shell. They also fashion
crude weapons out of it by secreting it on
the tip of a human leg bone or staff and
sharpening it on a nearby rock.
Most wormling “nests” stake out a
territory as their hunting grounds and
defend it against all comers—human,
wormling, or otherwise. Hunting grounds
are studded with pit traps lined with bits
of jagged metal and sharp rocks. Anyone
stepping on one of these areas falls in and
avoiding these traps requires a Notice roll
at –2.
In urban areas, wormlings sometimes
set above-ground traps by using their
acid to weaken a building’s structural
girders. Anyone placing any strain on these
undermined buildings (say, by walking
through them) causes them to collapse.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6, Spirit
d8, Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Notice d6, Shooting d6,
Stealth d10, Tracking d6
Pace: 6 (4 for warriors); Parry: 7; Toughness:
7, and 11(4) for warriors
Gear (warriors only): Bone axe (Str +d8).
Special Abilities:
• Acid: Wormlings produce a powerful
acid which they can spray from their
mouths. This is normally used when
burrowing through soil, but it can be used
as a weapon as well. The wormling uses
Shooting (2/4/8) and if it hits it does 2d8
damage. The acid quickly neutralizes a
few seconds after contact with air and
does not do any continuing damage.
• Armor +4: Wormling warriors have
hardened saliva coating their bodies,
giving them 4 points of armor.
 • Burrowing (4”): Wormlings can move
through soil (although not solid things
like rock). They like to use this to sneak
up on prey and grab them from below
(most likely with The Drop).
• Claws: Str+d6.
• Fear –2: Wormlings cause Fear checks
at –2.
• Size +1: Wormlings are nearly 8’ tall
with long spindly limbs.
HUMANS
Not all of the threats in the Wasted West
are spawned by the Reckoners. Here’s a
selection of the various types of individuals
found throughout the ruined world. As a
rule, the statistics presented here are a
baseline. Don’t be afraid to give a slick-
talking scavenger the Persuasion skill, for
example.
Unless otherwise stated, Arcane
Background (Black Magic) works exactly
like Arcane Background (Magic) from
Savage Worlds.
CULTIST
Dark cults that worship a variety of evil
entities can still be found throughout the
Wasted West. The rank and file cultist is
blindly dedicated to his faith and happily
murders for his dark gods. These days most
worship openly since they don’t have to
worry about the Agency or Texas Rangers,
but sometimes they infiltrate a community
and worship in secret until their evil plans
come to fruition.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d8, Knowledge (Occult) d4,
Knowledge (Trade) d4, Notice d6, Shooting
d6
Cha: –4; Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty, Mean, Outsider
Edges: Arcane Resistance, Brave
Gear: Cultists are usually armed with hand
weapons, often ritual daggers or similar
implements. That said, they’re not above
resorting to gunplay.
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Cult Leader
Following the destruction of the world,
many dark secrets hidden in the vaults
and recesses of museums and government
warehouses were dragged into the light of
day by scavengers. Following their exposure
to things Man Was Not Meant to Know, some
of these scavvies became imbued with
dark power, and they naturally set about
gathering followers for their dark master’s
worship. These deluded evil people consort
with the manitous (whom they believe are
dark gods) in exchange for even darker
powers. Often, cult leaders become pillars
of the community in their daily life—Law
Dogs, Mayors, and other notables.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d8, Spirit d8,
Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Faith d10, Fighting d10, Knowledge
(Occult) d8, Notice d6, Shooting d6
Cha: –4; Pace: 6; Parry: 7; Toughness: 6
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty, Mean, Outsider,
Overconfident
Edges: Arcane Background (Black Magic),
Brave, Command, Fervor, First Strike,
Improved Arcane Resistance
Powers: Bolt, deflection, stun, and one
more; Power Points: 20
Gear: Cult leaders frequently carry ritual
weapons imbued with evil (inflicting an
extra +2 damage for the cult leader only).
GUNMAN
Most folks around the Wasted West carry
a gun or two, but these men and women
make their living with one, and often give
names like Vera or Lux to their favorite
weapons. These unscrupulous mercenaries
typically work cheap and aren’t too worried
about the big picture as long as their ammo
is paid on time.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d6, Notice d6, Shooting d8
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: -
Edges: Brave, Quick Draw
Gear: Gunmen carry a variety of firearms,
and armor as they can afford it.

Gunman, Veteran
These shootists have been around a
while. They know the business of killing
and staying alive and charge a pretty caliber
of ammo for their services. Most are worth
every bullet.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Notice d8, Shooting d10
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 6
Hindrances: -
Edges: Brave, Marksman, Quick Draw, Rock
and Roll!
Gear: Veteran gunmen carry a variety
of firearms. Some wear Kevlar vests and
helmets as well.
INDIAN BRAVE
Bands of Old Ways braves can be found
throughout the anti-tech zone of the Sioux
Nations, dressed and equipped just as their
ancestors were in the 1800s. Occasionally
they ride out of their lands into the Wasted
West to see if the “white men” have been
eliminated yet.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d6, Riding
d8, Shooting d6, Stealth d6, Survival d6,
Tracking d6
Charisma: 0; Pace: 8; Parry: 7; Toughness:
6
Hindrances: Vow (Old Ways Oath),
Stubborn
Edges: Block, Brave, Fleet-Footed
Gear: Bow (Range 12/24/48, Damage 2d6,
ROF 1), tomahawk (Str+d6), horse.
Indian Brave, Veteran
Veteran Indian warriors have survived
many battles against both the survivors of
the Last War, the evils of the Reckoners,
and in a few cases, the Reckoner War itself.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d8, Riding
d10, Shooting d8, Stealth d8, Survival d6,
Tracking d8
Cha: 0; Pace: 8; Parry: 8; Toughness: 6
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Hindrances: Vow (Old Ways Oath),
Stubborn
Edges: Block, Brave, Fleet-Footed, Improved
Frenzy
Gear: Bow (Range 12/24/48, Damage 2d6,
ROF 1), war club (Str+d6), horse.
JUNKER
Most folks can pick out a junker from a
country mile. Some wear lab coats or have
crazy hairdos and every other word is some
sort of technical jargon, but all carry weird
contraptions.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d10, Spirit
d6, Strength d4, Vigor d6
Skills: Driving d4, Fighting d6, Knowledge
(Science) d8, Notice d4, Repair d8, Shooting
d6, Weird Science d10
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Curious, Delusion, Quirk.
Edges: Arcane Background (Weird Science),
Gadgeteer, Power Points.
Powers: Tachyon generator energy shield
(barrier); junkgun (burst), neural pathway
accelerator (quickness); Power Points: 15
Gear: Gadgets, tool kit.
LAW DOG
Some of the bravest heroes in the Wasted
West are no doubt the Law Dogs. They
usually operate on their own, constantly on
the move and looking for wrongs to right
and evil folks to bring to justice. A great
number of Law Dogs died in the climactic
Battle of Worms, and their de facto leader,
Cole Ballad, was killed by Raven himself.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d8,
Investigation d6, Knowledge (Occult)
d6, Notice d6, Riding d6, Shooting d10,
Streetwise, d6, Survival d6, Tracking d8
Cha: +2; Pace: 6; Parry: 7; Toughness: 6
Hindrances: Overconfident, Vow (Bring
law to the wastes)
Edges: Brave, Danger Sense, Law Dog
Gear: Police Pistol (Range 12/24/48,
Damage 2d6+1, RoF 1, AP 2), horse or van,
some sort of pre-War law enforcement
badge. Most Law Dogs also carry a rifle or
shotgun, and maybe even some grenades
for very dangerous critters.

MARTIAL ARTIST
The huge populations of Kangers found
along the west coast of the Americas kept
alive the martial traditions of their native
Asian countries. These skills can mean the
difference between life and death in the
wasteland.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d8, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d8, Notice
d6, Shooting d6, Stealth d4
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Code of Honor
Edges: Brave, Martial Arts
Gear: Martial artists carry a variety of gear,
from melee weapons to firearms.
Martial Artist, Superior
A few martial artists have dedicated their
lives to the pursuit of the philosophies of
their art. Thanks to their dedication, they
have learned to channel the energies of
the Hunting Grounds into their maneuvers,
making them a force to be reckoned with.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d8, Notice
d8, Stealth d6
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 7; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Code of Honor
Edges: Brawler, Counterattack, First Strike,
Improved Martial Artist, Kung Fu, Quick
Gear: Martial artists carry a variety of gear,
from melee weapons to firearms.
MAZE PIRATE
The channels of the Shattered Coast are
crawling with pirates of every description
and background. Norms, muties, and
everything in between fill the scurvy crews
who haunt the channels of the Maze,
looking for those weaker than themselves
to rob and kill.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Boating d6, Climbing d6, Fighting
d6, Intimidation d6, Notice d6, Shooting d6,
Stealth d6, Swimming d6
Cha: –2; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Greedy, Mean
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Edges: Steady Hands, Two-Fisted
Gear: Maze pirates carry a variety of
scavenged weapons. Most carry machetes
(Str+d6) or large knives (Str+d4).
MUTANT
Like normal humans, mutants range
from those who just want to live in peace to
those who are persuaded by the teachings
of Silas to go on the warpath against any
norms they can find. Unfortunately, since
many live in the ruins and are continually
exposed to ghost rock radiation, many tend
to degenerate to mindless trogs.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Climbing d6, Fighting d6, Intimidation
d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6, Survival d6,
Throwing d6
Cha: –2; Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 6(1)
Hindrances: Illiterate, Outsider (to non-
mutants)
Edges: Brave
Gear: Spear (Str+d6), Club (Str+d4), pelts/
leather armor +1.
RAIDERS
Wasteland scum live by their own code
that might makes right. They’re much the
same throughout the Wasted West, whether
found on the mesas of the Great Maze or on
the highways of the High Plains: butchers,
ravagers, and plunderers. It’s brainers like
these who keep the wasteland wasted.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d8, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d6, Gambling d6, Notice d6,
Shooting d6, Stealth d6, Survival d6
Cha: –2; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Bloodthirsty
Edges: Brave, Quick Draw
Gear: Raiders can carry just about any
weapon imaginable, but will usually have
both a firearm and a melee weapon.
SOLDIER
These folks are either old troopers who
survived the Last War or have been trained
by a military organization since the bombs
fell. Members of Junkyard’s Nauvoo Legion
are a well-known example in the wastes,
but the Chamber’s Tech Guard also falls
into this category.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d8, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d8, Notice
d8, Persuasion d6, Shooting d6, Stealth d8,
Streetwise d6
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Stubborn
Edges: Combat Reflexes, No Mercy
Gear: Soldiers’ gear varies by the resources
of their employers, and these days most
aren’t equipped to a uniform standard
except for the most advanced settlements
(like the Nauvoo Legion of Junkyard).
TOWNSFOLK
The common man lives in survivor
settlements scattered throughout the
wastes. They do what they need to do
to live another week, but are generally
law-abiding (whatever the law of their town
may be). A few older ones remember what
the world was like before the Last War.
With the destruction of civilization, many
professions that were important hundreds
of years ago, like blacksmiths, coopers, and
wagonmakers, are now in practice once
again.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6, Spirit d6,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d4, Knowledge (Trade) d8,
Notice d6, Shooting d4
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: —
Edges: —
Gear: Townsfolk have a variety of gear
appropriate to their trade. Many own a
firearm, or at least a knife.
TOXIC SHAMAN
These folks have learned to channel
the power of toxic spirits to do their dirty
work. The profile below is for a corruptor,
the most likely kind of toxic shaman to be
found opposing most posses.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d8, Spirit d8,
Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Faith d8, Fighting d6, Intimidation d8,
Riding d8, Shooting d6, Stealth d6, Survival
d8, Tracking d6
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Cha: –2; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 6
Hindrances: Mean, Mutant
Edges: Arcane Background (Toxic Shaman),
Toxic Guardian
Powers: Blast, bolt, and two or more others;
Power Points: 20
Gear: SA XM-40, 40 rounds of .50 rifle
ammo, 1 small battery, 1 gallon of spook
juice.
PERSONALITIES
The Wasted West has more than its fair
share of legendary individuals. Many can be
found in leadership positions in the wastes,
but some are well-known road gang leaders
who have made their presence known far
and wide by their deeds, good or bad.
DARIUS HELLSTROMME
One of the most famous people of all
time, Dr. Darius Hellstromme has been a
household name since the late 1800s. This
world-renowned “New” Scientist was even
awarded a Nobel Prize in the mid-1900s for
his work. Little did anyone ever imagine
that he would be responsible for the
coming of the Four Horsemen through his
development of ghost rock bombs.
The doctor, who began sporting a metal
body in the early 1900s, vanished at the
time of the Last War and many thought
he had been killed, but his reappearance
during the Harvest and subsequent capture
of the Reckoners has gone a long way to
righting his previous wrongs.
Note that while Hellstromme was once a
servitor, and still has some of the powers
he developed over the last 200 years, the
Reckoners stripped him of that particular
mojo when he bottled them up and shipped
them off to Banshee.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d12+6, Spirit
d12, Strength d12, Vigor d12
Skills: Boating d8, Driving d12, Fighting d6,
Healing d8, Intimidation d12, Investigation
d12+6, Knowledge (Astrophysics, Biology,
Chemistry, Occult, Physics) d12+6, Notice
d12, Persuasion d12, Piloting d12, Repair

d12, Shooting d10, Stealth d6, Streetwise
d8, Swimming d6, Taunt d12, Throwing d12,
Weird Science d12+6
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 16 (6)
Hindrances: Curious, Overconfident, Vow
Edges: Arcane Background (Weird Science),
Charismatic, Connections, Filthy Rich,
Gadgeteer, Great Luck, Improved Arcane
Resistance, Improved Dodge, Improved Level
Headed, Improved Trademark Weapon (Any
Gadget or Gizmo), Marksman, McGyver, Mr.
Fix It, Rock and Roll!, Steady Hands, Strong
Willed
Powers: see below, Power Points: see
below
Gear: 40-watt phased plasma rifle (Range
30/60/120, Damage 2d8+1, RoF 3, Shots
unlimited, AP 3, Auto, 3RB), flamer (Cone
Template, Damage 2d10, ignores armor),
industrial diamond buzzsaw on arm (Str+d6,
AP3).
Special Abilities:
• Armor +6: Hellstromme’s robotic body
is constructed of the highest grade ghost
steel.
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• Construct: +2 to recover from being
Shaken; no extra damage from called
shots; never suffers from Wound modifiers;
immune to disease and poison.
• Fearless: Having been to Hell itself
(several times), as well as having brain
chemical modifiers wired into his brain­
case, Dr. Hellstromme does not suffer
from Fear effects and can’t be intimidated.
• Mad Insight: Hellstromme’s gizmos
count as infernal devices and never
malfunction or run out of Power Points
so long as he wields them. Further, given
an hour in his lab, he can invent (and
build!) a new such device to reflect any
Power he wishes.
• Reconstruction: Hellstromme’s
robotic body boasts a self-repair system
that grants a +2 to Vigor checks to
recover after a battle as long as the head
and torso are mostly intact and there is a
supply of parts nearby.
• Robotic Body: The doctor replaced his
organic body with a metallic one in 1917
and has upgraded it continuously since
then. It is equipped with a 100 mile range
radio and a third red eye that acts as a
targeting computer (+1 to Shooting) with
Low Light Vision (ignores the penalties
for Dim and Dark lighting).
• Size +2: Hellstromme’s robotic body
stands 10’ tall and is very bulky.
DOC SCHWARTZ
Ike Taylor’s right-hand man in Junkyard
is a junker named Doc Schwartz. If Ike is all
seriousness and concentration, Schwartz is
the comic relief. A mad alchemist before he
became a junker, Doc is the key to Taylor’s
power through the spook juice refineries he
set up in the Iron Oasis.
The junker has the unfortunate habit of
talking too much and sometimes gives away
things Ike would rather keep secret, but he’s
a true genius when it comes to designing
new machines. Doc’s the stereotypical mad
scientist, with wild white hair, a bushy
mustache, and taped-together spectacles
that have been broken a hundred times.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d10, Spirit
d8, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d4, Knowledge (Occult)
d8, Notice d6, Persuasion d8, Repair d12,
Shooting d4
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Ailin’ (Minor), Big Mouth,
Curious, Overconfident
Edges: Arcane Background (Junker), Brave,
Connections, Gadgeteer, Guts
Powers: Armor, detect/conceal arcana, stun.
Power Points: 15
Gear: Spare tools.
IKE TAYLOR
Once a lowly factory foreman, Ike Taylor
rose to the leadership of one of the only
cities to survive Judgment Day through
sheer force of will. The leader of Junkyard
is not quite as clean as he’d like to be—
both literally and figuratively—but he has
managed to maintain the only settlement
in the West that’s large enough to be called
a city. He’s had to make deals with some of
the worst desert scum to do it, but he sees
it as the price of life with Hell on Earth.
His foresight led to the creation of the
Iron Alliance and his plans managed to
fight off the forces of not only the Mutant
King but the Combine as well. Unfortunately,
his plans didn’t extend to the post-war
environment, and now Ike is seeing what
he built beginning to slip away without
the bonding influence of an overwhelming
common enemy.
Ike is a tall, lean black man with piercing
green eyes. He usually wears a soot-stained
white shirt, jeans, and suspenders.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d10, Spirit
d8, Strength d10, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10,
Knowledge (Battle) d8, Notice d8, Persuasion
d12, Shooting d6, Streetwise d10,
Cha: +2; Pace: 6; Parry: 7; Toughness: 7
Hindrances: Cautious, Loyal (to Junkyard)
Edges: Brave, Brawny, Charismatic,
Command, Connections, Guts, Inspire,
Natural Leader, Strong Willed
Gear: Wrench (Str+d4).
JENNY QUAID
Jenny was a waitress at a biker bar in
Arizona before the Apocalypse. She had
occasional boyfriends who taught her how
to ride, but she was shy and demure until
the world ended. Then her wild side came
out and she founded a gang called the
Queens of the Road.
Fortunately, the good-natured girl inside
her won out over the bad girl she appears
to be most of the time, and her all-girl road
gang prefers to rob their victims and leave
them alive.
Since the Battle of Worms and the loss of
her Queens of the Road, Jenny is haunted
by the visions of the final battle and has
been drowning her sorrows in the watering
holes of the shantytowns outside Junkyard
since the Harvest.
Jenny is everything a male chauvinist
pig looks for in a “biker babe.” She’s large
chested with a skinny waist and loves to
wear corsets and tight vinyl pants. She
knows it too, and she uses it to her best
advantage, which is how she’s stayed in
liquor since the loss of her beloved gang.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8,
Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d4, Knowledge (Trade) d8,
Notice d6, Shooting d4
Cha: +6; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Heroic, Loyal
Edges: Ace, Brave, Charismatic, Fleet-
Footed, Guts, Level Headed, Scrounger, Very
Attractive
Gear: Street bike, pump shotgun (Range
12/24/48, Damage 1–3d6, RoF 1, +2 to hit),
Bowie knife (Str+d6, AP1).

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 • Pheromones: One of Joan’s mutations
JOAN, LEADER OF THE CULT allows her to release powerful phero­
mones that calm everyone within a
OF DOOM HERETICS Large Burst Template. Wasters exposed
to these airborne chemicals must make
At the time of Judgment Day, Joan was a an opposed Spirit roll. Those who fail put
poker dealer and New Age devotee in Las away any weapons and sit quietly for ten
Vegas. She was working on the Strip when minutes and blissfully contemplate the
the bomb went off, and gained several psychedelic colors swirling around them.
minor mutations as the warped spiritual
power washed over her. She elected to stay
in the city rather than flee into the desert
JO WALES, GRANDMASTER OF
in search of help, and did what she could
to help out her fellow survivors.
THE TEMPLARS
No one who knew the soft-spoken
Joan tried to stay out of the way while
suburban wife and mother would recognize
the Cult of Grendel ruled the city, but Silas’
her as the hard-bitten leader of the
arrival awoke something inside her and she
Templars. The crucible of the Last War
became a close confidant of the newly-
and Hell on Earth have changed Josephine
crowned King of All Mutants. Following the
Cordelia Wales beyond recognition.
Virginia City massacre, however, she broke
with Silas and founded the purple-robed Following Simon’s death, Jo was
Doomsayers. nominated to the position of Grandmaster.
Her leadership style and philosophy was
Her prophesy of the coming of the
quite different from the old Master’s, and
Harbinger, as well as her doctrine of
she was struggling against propaganda
peaceful coexistence between norms and
from a variety of sources both within and
muties, made her enemy number one of the
without the Iron Alliance that questioned
Cult of Doom. Since the Harvest, Joan has
the ultimate worth and goals of her
come out of hiding and founded a mutant
organization. Within a few months of
embassy and welcome center in Junkyard.
assuming the position, Jo had had enough
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d10, Spirit and returned to the life of the wandering
d12, Strength d6, Vigor d8 Templar. She can be encountered anywhere
Skills: Faith d12+2, Fighting d4, Knowledge in the wastes, fighting the good fight, often
(New Age mysticism) d12, Notice d8, against impossible odds.
Persuasion d12, Shooting d4, Survival d8
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8, Spirit
Cha: 6; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 6
d10, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Hindrances: Cautious, Enemy (Major-Cult
Skills: Driving d10, Faith d10, Fighting d12,
of Doom), Pacifist (minor)
Healing d10, Intimidation d12, Knowledge
Edges: Arcane Background (Doomsayer),
(Occult) d8, Notice d10, Persuasion d10,
Brave, Charismatic, Grit, Guts, Level Headed,
Riding d10, Shooting d8, Stealth d10, Survival
Rad Resistant, Very Attractive
d8, Tracking d8
Gear: Purple robes.
Cha: +2; Pace: 6; Parry: 10; Toughness: 13
Powers: Armor, blast, bolt, boost/lower
(6)
trait, deflection, environmental protection,
Hindrances: Code of Honor, Heroic, Loyal,
heal, stun. Power Points: 25
Stubborn
Special Abilities:
Edges: Arcane Background (Templar),
• Oracle of the Glow: Joan some­ times
Blessing of the Saints, Brave, Charismatic,
enters a trance in which she receives
Chosen of the Saints, Command,
premonitions of the future. On a successful
Connections, Grit, Guts, Harder to Kill,
Faith roll she receives a premonition of
Improved Block, Improved Level Headed,
future events. The visions are extremely
Improved Trademark Weapon, Inspire,
vague and subject to interpretation. Joan
Marksman, Mighty Blow, No Mercy, Quick
can only attempt these visions once every
Draw, Shield of the Saints, Simon’s Blessing,
six months.
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Powers: Armor, boost/lower trait, darksight,
deflection, disguise, healing, quickness, and
smite. Jo has not mastered greater healing,
but she’s working on it. Power Points: 30
Gear: Infantry Battle Suit, NA Officer’s
Sidearm (Range 12/24/48, Damage 2d6, AP
1), 60 rounds 9mm ammo, sword (Str+d10+2).
Special Abilities:
• Jo’s Sword: Jo’s husband was a
self-described “gaming geek” and had a
collection of medieval armor and weapons
to go along with the hundreds of games
and other paraphernalia Jo grudgingly
put up with. After his death, Jo took a
long sword from her husband’s collection
and has had it ever since. It has become
imbued with her essence, adds +2 to hit
and damage, and acts as a supernatural/
blessed weapon against creatures of the
Wasted West.

MARCUS LIEBOWITZ
Before the Last War, Marcus Liebowitz
was the Head Librarian at University of
NorCal-Sacramento. Shortly after the
bombs fell, looters broke into his library
and began destroying the books. Liebowitz
tried to stop them and was nearly beaten to
death for his efforts. As he lay there bleeding
among his ravaged stacks, he vowed that if
he survived, he would never allow such a
thing to happen again.
True to his word, Liebowitz began
recruiting like-minded people to help in his
crusade as soon as he had recovered. Even
now, thirteen years after the war, he has not
let himself forget his near-death experience
and the mindless destruction of knowledge
he witnessed. He uses the fury it kindles
within him to maintain his determination
to succeed at the Herculean task he has set
for himself and his followers. Liebowitz is a
thin, balding man in his mid-fifties.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d12, Spirit
d6, Strength d6, Vigor d6
Skills: Fighting d4, Knowledge (Geography,
History, Medicine, Occult, Science) d12,
Notice d8, Shooting d4
Cha: +2; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
Hindrances: Bad Eyes, Curious, Pacifist
(minor), Vow (major)
Edges: Charismatic, Guts, Librarian, Scholar
(+2 to History and Occult)
Gear: Palmcorder
 MURIEL REDWING
Muriel is the head of the Grand Library’s
security forces. Prior to the war she was
head of security for Tommy Two Women,
an infamous arms dealer in Deadwood. Her
last action in this capacity was to escort
him to safety just prior to the massacre of
the Ravenites outside of Deadwood. She
was so disgusted by Tommy’s actions and
her own part in them that she attempted
to kill him, but was prevented by the very
security detail she once commanded.
Muriel fled west to the Great Maze where
she met Liebowitz. The order had only a
few members at the time and they were
failing badly at their goal. Being peaceful,
bookworm types, they just lacked the sand
and firepower to accomplish their mission.
Muriel changed that, giving them combat
training and “procuring” weapons for them.
Muriel now commands the armed
Librarians who guard the order’s immense
collection of knowledge. She takes her
duties seriously and often argues with
Liebowitz over security matters. He feels she
is sometimes overzealous, while Redwing
believes that despite his experience,
Liebowitz is horribly naive when it comes
to restricting access to the stacks. Muriel
descends from the Lakota Sioux, and has
short-cropped, black hair, coal black eyes,
and the body of an Olympic athlete. She
also wears the Librarian’s signature pin.
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d8, Spirit
d10, Strength d6, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d12, Gambling d8,
Intimidation d12, Knowledge (Law) d6, Notice
d8, Persuasion d10, Riding d10, Shooting d8,
Stealth d10, Survival d8, Tracking d8
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 8; Toughness: 12 (6)
Hindrances: Heroic, Loyal, Stubborn,
Vengeful (Major)
Edges: Brave, Command, Grit, Guts, Hard
to Kill, Improved Dodge, Improved Level
Headed, Inspire, Librarian, Luck, Marksman,
Quick Draw, Strong Willed
Gear: Infantry Battle Suit, NA Officer’s
Sidearm (Range 12/24/48, Damage 2d6,
RoF 1, AP 1, +1 Shooting in short range), SA
Commando SMG (Range 12/24/48, Damage
2d8 damage, RoF 3, AP 2, Auto).
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SILAS RASMUSSEN,
MUTANT KING
The self-proclaimed “King of All Mutants”
was once a simple physicist before the
Last War. Unfortunately for the Wasted
West, he was one of those who felt no one
appreciated him in life, scoffed at him for
his lack of social skills, and stole his ideas
and work before the Last War.
The mutants of Lost Vegas provided the
raw materials his superior intellect would
forge into a hammer capable of smashing
the old order and rebuild the world as it
should be—with Silas Rasmussen as its
head. Unfortunately for him, the world
turned upside down with the arrival of
the Harbinger during the Harvest. Now the
Mutant King plots and schemes to speed
up evolution despite the interference of the
norms and their misguided mutant allies.
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d12, Spirit
d10, Strength d6, Vigor d10
Skills: Faith d12+2, Fighting d8, Intimidation
d12, Knowledge (Physics) d12, Notice d8,
Persuasion d12, Shooting d8, Stealth d10,
Survival d8
Cha: 0; Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 11 (4)
Hindrances: Arrogant, Mean, Vengeful
(Major), Vow (Rule the World)
Edges: Arcane Background (Doomsayer),
Brave, Charismatic, Command, Connections
(The Combine), Danger Sense, Fervor, Grit,
Guts, Harder to Kill, Inspire, Rad Resistant,
Strong Willed.
Gear: Kevlar under robes (AV4), glow stick
(Str+d10).
Powers: See below. Power Points: See
below
Special Abilities:
• Prophet of the Glow: Silas embodies
the religion of the Glow, and can draw
power directly from maelstroms. Within
10 miles of a maelstrom, the Mutant King
can cast any power of the Glow with
unlimited Power Points. If actually within
the walls of a maelstrom, all Faith rolls
and damage rolls are at +2. If outside the
radius of a maelstrom, he can choose any
ten powers with 20 Power Points.

SAMUEL THROCKMORTON
General Samuel Throckmorton came
from a family with a long and proud history
of service to his nation. A Confederate
Special Operations officer who quickly
rose through the ranks, he was killed in
a LatAm airstrike at an airfield in Yuma
in 2081. Due to his prior command of
cyborgs and special operations forces, the
decision was made to reconstruct him as
a cyborg. Throckmorton was assigned to
Camp Summers, a mobile POW compound
along the old Mason-Dixon Wall which also
served as a repair depot for battle-damaged
vehicles brought in from the front.
When the bombs dropped on September
23, 2081, Camp Summers was spared
destruction. Throckmorton realized this
was a chance to reunite these two great
nations, and outlined his plans for unity
to those soldiers, North and South, under
his care. Most agreed to go along with
the plans for a new Combined America,
and Throckmorton set their goal as the
Northern city of Denver, from which they
would be able to extend the Combine out
across the plains while the Rockies would
protect their back against any threats from
the Maze.
Prior to arriving at Denver the newly
integrated troops performed admirably
against the mutants and abominations
they encountered, saving several survivor
settlements. Arriving in Denver, the Combine
troops began the process of clearing the
walkin’ dead from the city and helping the
surviving Denverites as best they could.
Unfortunately, when the General
interfaced with the Denver AI things went
all to hell. The AI easily took the General
over, and with a pawn in command of
thousands of well-equipped troops, it saw
a way for its plans of techno-conquest to
succeed.
Following the takeover of the General,
the tone of the Combine subtly changed,
and those who voiced any reservations
about its new direction died of a plague or
under other mysterious circumstances. The
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implantation of the headbanger chips to
protect against “mutant influences” helped
secure a loyal force of soldiers.
The huge losses of the Harvest have
set back the Denver AI’s plans for
world conquest, with an ultimate goal
of supplanting organic lifeforms with
mechanical ones, but it realizes this is just
a blip in its long term goals.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d10, Spirit
d10, Strength d8, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d12, Intimidation d10,
Knowledge (Battle) d12, Notice d8, Persuasion
d10, Shooting d8, Stealth d10, Survival d8
Cha: +2; Pace: 6; Parry: 8; Toughness: 9 (2)
Hindrances: Stubborn, Vow (Reunite the
US and CSA)
Edges: Alertness, Brave, Charismatic,
Command, Danger Sense, Grit, Guts, Hard
to Kill, Hold the Line!, Improved Dodge,
Improved Level Headed, Inspire, Luck,
Strong Willed
Gear: As needed for the job.
Special Abilities:
• AI Puppet: The General is controlled
by the Denver AI. It has supplanted the
original programming, deleting all of
Throckmorton’s Rules of Engagement
and imposing its own—namely, to conquer
the Wasted West by whatever means
necessary. The Denver AI has a Spirit of
d12+6, used whenever the General tries to
override its directives.
• Bodyguard: The General never goes
anywhere without a Personal Security
Detachment of two infiltrator and two
heavy combat model cyborgs.
• Light Combat Chassis: It’s obvious
General Throckmorton is a cyborg. He
has a target eye (+1 to Shooting), radio,
and subdermal armor (AV2).
• Weakness (Haunted): Throckmorton
caused the death of his friend Daniel
Masters and it still haunts him. If he is
shown an artifact of Daniel Masters—a
photo, weapon, dogtag, etc.—the General
overrides his AI for a full five minutes.
Then the hateful thing takes vengeful
charge once again. This will work not
more than once a year.
 A Brain Buzzard 166
Brass 42
INDEX Devil Bats 168
Devil’s Playground 107
Forsaken 97
Fort 51 107
Harvest, The 19
Hatchet 44
A-4 York Air Defense Buckshot 47 Devils Tower 134 Fort Apache 149 Head Case 176
Vehicle 60 Buffalo 155 Director, The 121 Fort Bridger 136 Heavy Duty Shocks 61
A-Bomb Andy. See Bates, Discord Bug 169 Fortitude 82 Heavy Machine Guns 53
President Andrew Doc Schwartz 196–201 Four Horsemen of Heavy Sleeper 35
Addicted 96 C Dog o’ War Alpha 170 the Apocalypse. Hell Fire 75
Addiction Modifier 49 Cajuns 144 Dogs O’ War 170 See Reckoners, The Hellstorms 11, 95
Ailin’ 34 Canyon Causeway 116 Dominion 72 Frangible 42 Hellstromme, Dr. Darius 15,
Air Dam 60 Caretakers 90 Don’t Get ’im Riled! 37 Freemen 136 19, 195–201
Air Defense Radar 56 Caseless Ammunition 43 Doombringers 170 Fuel Efficient 56 Hellstromme Industries 3
Alien Crossbreed 136 Cat Eyes 74 Doomsayer 31, 171 Fuel Guzzler 56 Hell Swamp 143
Alpha 170 Chamber 21 Doomsayer Edges 71 Fuel Hog 56 Helltown 137
Alvarez, Shogun Suki 130 Chamber, The 16 Doomsayer Powers 71 Fusion Powered 56 HI. See Hellstromme
Amanitrol 82 Charisma 33 Doomsayers 14, 36, 69 Industries
Ammo 54 Chill o’ the Grave 75 Down Below 112 High Plains 26, 131
Ammunition 42–43, 63 Choose Your Poison 90 Drink 55, 74
G High Plains Encounter Table
Anouks 4 Chop Bot 166 Dr. Pepper 44 Gadgeteer 77 131
Anti-infantry Charges 56 Chosen 16 Drugs 49–56, 55 Gallos Terribles 172 Highway Patrol 115
APC 60 Chosen of the Saints 89 Duststorms 95 Gamemaster 129 Hindrances 34
Apostate 82 City of Lost Angels 116 Dust Storms 11 Gas Mask 44 Hindrances, New 34
Arcane Backgrounds 36 Civilian Executive Protection Gazetteer 24 HMMWV 58
Armor 43, 54 Armor 43 Gear 34, 55 Hollow Point 43
Armor Piercing 42
AT Laser 63
Civilian Vehicles 57 E Geiger Counter 44
General Equipment 55
Hooch Converter 61
Claws 75 Earth Sykers 81 Hot Dog 49
Automaton-Banshee 160 Clothes 55 Ghost 75 Houston 151
East of the Mississippi 24,
Automaton—Battle Hounds Combat Edges 37 Ghost Busters 6 Hover 56
105
159 Combat Shocks 61 Ghost Ray 79 Hubcap 47
Edges
Automaton-Raptor 161 Combine 20, 133 Ghost Rock 3, 55 Humans 192–195
Background 36
Automatons 157–159 Combine Compound 133 Ghost Rock Batteries 44 Hunted 96
Combat 37
Automaton- Widowmaker Combine, The 12 Ghost Rock Wraith 173 Hunting Grounds 1, 2
Doomsayer 71
161 Common Gear 44–46 Ghost Storm 6
Harrowed 74
Availability 41–62 Communication 10 Ghost Storms 65
Junker 79
Axor 82 Compass 44 Legendary 39
Giant Mosquitos 142 I
ComSat 10 Globe 152 Ike Taylor 197–201
Professional 38
B Confusion 37 Psyker 82
Glom 174
Glow Worm 174
Implacable 76
Background Edges 36 Corrupters 90 Templar 89 Improved Cat Eyes 74
Corvallis 125 Gore Storm 175 Improved Claws 75
Backwash 84 Toxic Shaman 91
Counting Coup 65 Grand Library 119 Improved Stitchin’ 76
Badlands 141 Weird 39
Coup 65, 93 Grand Library, The 16 Improvised Armor 43
Baldness 80 Edges, New 36
Coyote Wasteland 28, 153 Grandmaster of the Indian Brave 193
Banshee 4, 160 Electromagnetic Pulse 71
Craft, Jasmine 138 Templars 198–201 Indian Brave, Veteran 193
Banshee Stones 83 EMP 71
Croaker 167 Great Basin 24, 106 Indian Nations 27
Bates, President Andrew Encounter Tables 105, 131,
Croaker Shaman 167 Great Basin Encounter Table Infantry Battlesuit Helmet
4, 5 140, 143, 146, 154
Croaker Warrior 167 107 43
Baton Rouge 143 Encounter Tables
Crossbreed 136 Great Maze 25, 114 Infected 97
Batteries 44 107, 115, 124
Cultist 192 Great Maze Land Encounter Inferno 47
Battle Hound Infiltrator Equipment 41–62, 82
Cult Leader 192 Table 115 Infest 76
Model 159 Eternal Hero 98
Cult of Doom, The 14 Great Maze Sea Encounter Inner Junkyard 112
Battle Hound Patrol Model Extra Armor 61
Cult of Grendel 14 Table 115 Insane 97
159
Currency 9, 41–62 Great Northwest 25, 123 Iron Alliance 16, 22
Battle of Worms 20
Beaded Horror 162 Cursed 98 F Great Old Ones. See Old Iron Alliance, The 19
Cyclopean 97 Faminites 188 Ones Iron Man 49
Beam Laser 63
Faraway 4 Great Spirit War, The 1–5 IW-40 48
Beanbag 47
Faraway War 80 Green Bird of Heaven 83 IW-91 48
Bionics 113
Black Hat 163
D FAte Chips 66 Grenades 47, 54
Dakotas 140 Fate Eater 171 Grim Servant o’ Death 34
Black Rain 11, 95
Blast Shadow 163
Damaged Goods 42 Fat Tony Mulachi 138 Grit 39 J
Deadland 2, 7, 101 Fear 66, 74, 100 Gun Accessories 55 Jasmine Craft and her Coven
Blessing of the Saints 89
Dead Pool 117 Fear Level Gunman 192 138
Bloat 187
Dead Towns 150 Lowering 101 Gunman, Veteran 193 Jenny Quaid 197–201
Bloatbelly 163
Deadwood 28, 134 Fear Levels 100 Guts 38 Jinxed 96
Bloodsports 113
Death 65 Fighting Position 61 Gyrojet Ammunition 43 Joan 15, 16, 198–201
Bloodwave 165
Death Wounds 73 Fighting Vehicles 56 Joan, Leader of the Cult of
Bloodwolf 164
Decay 73
Boise 124
Defensive 38
Fizzers 172
Flamer 63
H Doom Heretics 198–201
Jo Wales 16
Bollixed 97 Hand Weapons 54
Dempsey Islands 151 Flare 47 Jo Wales, Grandmaster of
Bone Bot 165 Harbinger, The 16
Denver 132 Flash Bang 47 the Templars 198–201
Boomerang 47 Harrowed 39, 72, 98
Denver Resistance 16 Focus 38 Judgment Day 6–7
Bows 52 Harrowed Abilities 99
Desert Gator 168 Food 55, 74 Junker 193
Brainburst 49 Harrowed Edges 74

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Junker Edges 79
Junkers 36, 77–79
Junkmen 77
Junkyard 9, 24, 110
Money, Starting 34 Simon Mercer. See Mercer, Tremane, President Mary 4
Monsters & Misfits 157–201 Q Simon Trickery 38
Movie Town 119 Quaid, Jenny 197–201 Simon’s Blessing 89 Trog 185
Mulachi, Fat Tony 138 Quicksludge 155 Sioux Nations 27, 134, 140 TSAR 83
Multiprojectile 47 Sioux Nations Encounter Tunnel 80

K
Muriel Redwing 200–201 R Table 140 Tunnel, The 3
Mutant 35, 194 Race 33 skills 33 Turtle Isle 123
Kansas City 144 Mutantkind 13 Rad-Gone 49 Sky Pirates 139
Kevlar Vest 43 Mutant King 200–201 Rad Intolerant 35 Sky Sweep Air Defense
King of Mardi Gras 145 Mutate! 72 Radio 45 Vehicle 59 U
Kung Fu 37 Mutation 96 Radios 93 Sleep 74 Undeath 74
Mutations 95 Radrat 180 Slow Burn 84 Urban Wyrm 185
Mutation Table 95 Slowpoke 35
L Muties 20
Rad Resistant 36
Radstorms 95 Smoke 48 V
Languages 33 SoCal 122
Raiders 194 Vehicle Fatigue 56
Laser 63 Soldier 195
Laser Sight 45 N Rail Gun 63
Rain Forest 126 Sothby, President Jonas 4 Vehicle Notes 56
Laser Weapons 56 NA M-42 48 Soul Eater 76 Vehicles 56–62
Ram Plate 62 Vehicular Weapons 63
Last Sons, The 2 NA M-92 Officer’s Sidearm Southwest 27, 146
Raptor 161 Vengeance Brigade
Las Vegas 14, 108 48 Space Needle 127
Rarity Table 42 Automaton 158
Law 9 NA XM-21 48 Speed 38
Rasmussen, Silas 200–201 Veteran o’ the Wasted West
Law Dog 31, 38, 193 NBC Environmental Spikers 129
Rattler 180 36, 96
Law Dogs 12 Protection Suit 45 Spoiler 62
Raven 2, 22 Veteran o’ the
Leavenworth 126 Near Dallas 152 Spook 76
Ravenite 32 Wasted West Table 96
Lee Main Battle Tank 59 Near Wichita 138 Spook Juice 18, 58, 77, 90
Reckoners 7 Veteran Walkin’ Dead 187
Legendary Edges 39 New Billings 132 Spotted Owls 124
Reckoners, The 2 Voices, The 94
Liberator IFV 59 New Edges 36 Sprayskin 47
Reckoners’ Touch 188 Voracipede 175
Librarian 31, 38 New Hindrances 34 Standard Automaton 158
Red 83
Librarians 16, 20 New Jerome 126 Standard Rounds 42
Redhawk 49
Liebowitz, Marcus 199–201
Light Weight 56
New Orleans 144
Night Haunt 178
Redwing, Muriel 200–201 Steinbrueck’s Poltergeist W
Replacement Limbs 114 128 Wales, Jo 198–201
Lockpicks 45 Night Terror 179 Stitchin’ 76
Resilient 38 Walkin’ Dead 187–192
Locust Swarm 155 Night Terrors 35, 97 Storm Crow 183
Resistance 134 Wall Crawler 186
Lost Angels 25, 116 Night Vision Goggles 45 Stuart APC 60
Rex, the King of Mardi War Party 155
Lost Vegas 24 Ningyo 179 Submachine Guns 53
Gras 145 Wasted West, The 7–11,
Lowering the Fear Level 101 Nitrous Oxide 61 Supercharger 62
Rifles 52, 53 105–155
Lower Mississippi and Delta No Man’s Land 69–91 Supernatural Trait 76
Riot Control 47 Water Purification Kit 45
26, 142 Northwest 123 Suppressor 45
Ripper 49 Water Test Kit 45
Lurker 176 Survivor Settlements 8
River Leviathan 181 Weapon Mount 62
Lyin’ Eyes 35 Sword of the Saints 89
Lynchburg 119 O River Rats 142
River Rats, The 146 Syker 32, 36
Weapons 47–49, 52, 63
Weather 94
Oathbreaker 82 Syker Equipment 82
River Watch 146 Weird Edges 39
Oath of Unity 82 Syker Hindrances 82
M Officer’s Sidearm 48
River Worm 182
Road Gangs 18, 21 Sykers 80–85
Weird Science 77
Weird Weather 94
M-12 Stuart APC 60 Oil Town 147 Sykoactive Helmet 83
Road Orcs 106, 115 Wendigo 189
M-24 Schwarzkopf 59 Old Ones 1, 2
Rock Island Prison 117 western Nebraska 132
M-26 Powel 58 Old Prosperi 121
M-38 Sky Sweep Air Defense OPEC 149
Rope 45 T Wheels 37
Ruger Redhawk 49 T-12 Lee Main Battle Tank Widgets 9
Vehicle 59 Operation Damocles Soldier
Rust Mite 182 59 Widowmaker 161
M-42 48 36
Tale Teller 39 Willow Wight 189
M-50 49 Oppenheimer’s Chosen 71
Wither 76
M-92 Officer’s Sidearm 48 Outer Junkyard 111 S Tapping the Net 79
Taylor, Ike 197–201 Wizard’s Tower 129
M-95 Missile Launcher 63 Overgrown Town 124 SA M-50 49
Telekinetic Squeeze 85 Wolfling 189
M-124 Liberator IFV 59 Overkill 82 Samuel Throckmorton 201
Templar 32 Wood Axe 45
M-240GL 63 Owls 124 Satellite Radio 10
Templar Edges 89 World War II 3
Machine Guns 53 SA XM-40 “Ripper” 49
Templars 18, 21, 36, 86–89 World War III 4
Maimed 97
Mall of America 137
P Scarcity 42
Test of Worth 88 Worm Canyon 141
Pace 33 Scavenger Supreme 79 Wormling 191
Mama Tibutu’s Goodies 144 Texas Razors 184
Pale Horses 155 Scavenging 66 Worms 22
Manitou 1 The Strip 110
Paranoid 97 Schwartz, Doc 196–201 Worst Nightmare 34
Marcus Liebowitz 199–201 Thibidaux 143
Parry 33 Schwarzkopf 59
Mardi Gras 145 Thin-Skinned 35
Personalities 195–201 Scope 45
Throckmorton, Samuel 201
Marked For Death 97
Marshal’s Handbook 93–103
Phoenix 153 Scrawler 183
Thrown Weapons 52
X
Pick 45 Scrounger 39 XL-99 63
Martial Artist 194 Thunder Spawn 184
Pirate 194 Scrounging 41–62, 102 XM-21 48
Martial Artist, Superior 194 Tony Mulachi 138
Pistols 52 Scrounging Table 102 XM-40 “Ripper” 49
Maze Dragon 177 Toughness 33, 38
Pits 121 Sealed 56
Maze Pirate 194 Townsfolk 195
Plague Zombies 188 SEATAC 127
Toxic Clouds 11, 95
Medboard 46
Medchip 46
Pledge, The 88 Seattle 126
Toxic Eruption 155
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Population Modifiers 42 Selling Goods 41–62 York Air Defense Vehicle 60
Medchip Scanner 46 Toxic Guardian 91
Portland 130 Servitors 2, 130, 138, 145
Medical Equipment 46–47, Toxic Pool 155
Postman 31 Setting Rules 65–91
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Postmen 11 Shan Fan 122
Toxic Shaman 33, 195
Toxic Shaman Edges 91
SYMBOLS
Medkit 47 Sharpened Hubcap 47 8mm Rail Gun 63
Powell 58 Toxic Shamans 36, 90–91
Memento 103 Shield of the Saints 89 10mm Laser 63
Power 38 Toxic Spirit 91
Mercer, Simon 18 Shogunate of Portland 130 15mm AA Beam Laser 63
Precision 38 Toxic Zombie 188
Mind Biter 177 Shogun Suki Alvarez 130 15mm AT Laser 63
Predavore 179 Tracer 43
Mindlink 84 Shotguns 53 125mm 63
Professional Edges 38 Trade Convoys 11
Mindwipe 84 Shrak 167 140mm 63
Prosperi 121 Trader Caravan 107, 124
Mini-Chainsaw 48 Sidecar 62
Psyker Edges 82 Traits 33
Missile Launcher 63 Silas 14
Psyker Powers 84 Trappings 72, 79, 85, 91
Mississippi Delta Encounter Silas Rasmussen, Mutant
Purgatory 121 Trash Garden 155
Table 143 King 200–201

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